The Latest Breaking News from Poltava

As Russia's military continues to pound Ukraine with missiles and other lethal weapons, Western nations have responded in part by targeting Russia's defense industry with sanctions. The latest round came on Tuesday, when the United States issued new sanctions on some arms makers and executives at the heart of what…

The strike on the busy shopping centre in Kremenchuk, in the region of Poltava, southeast of Kyiv, has been condemned by the UN and the West

“The Indian nationals were taken from Sumy in a convoy of 13 buses escorted by the International Committee of the Red Cross to Poltava,” a student coordinator said

A special train will take the students from Poltava to Lviv in western Ukraine, from where they will be taken to Poland in buses

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed on Wednesday the opening of humanitarian corridors from Enerhodar, Mariupol to Zaporizhia, from Sumy to Poltava and other Ukrainian cities.

The students were being taken to Poltava, from where they will board trains to western Ukraine

Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the besieged eastern city of Sumy on Tuesday, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia after several failed attempts in recent days. Sumy governor Dmitro Zhivitskiy said in a video statement that the first buses had already departed…

Ukraine news from March 8: Ukraine’s president pushed for more support in address to the British parliament.

In his ramblings on Russian history, Vladimir Putin has been referring lately to the Battle of Poltava, 1709, by which Tsar Peter the Great hugely expanded the Russian Empire by defeating the Swedes. He refers to Peter the Great as “my predecessor”.