The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

Russian withdrawal from Lyman sparks ‘wave of public criticism of military leadership by senior officials’

Ukraine won a major battlefield victory after Russian forces withdrew from the key eastern city on Saturday

Evening Standard · Oct 2, 2022

Russian conscript desperate to escape to UK after friends killed in Ukraine war

Vadim, 22, is due to register at the enlistment office on Tuesday to sign up for the war in Ukraine but says he'll do whatever it takes to avoid Vladimir Putin's war

Daily Mirror · Oct 2, 2022

Germany, Denmark, Norway to give Ukraine 16 Slovak Zuzana-2 howitzers

Germany, Denmark and Norway will buy 16 Slovak Zuzana-2 howitzers for Ukraine, the German Defence Ministry said on Sunday, with delivery to begin next year.

Reuters · Oct 2, 2022

Russia says its forces destroy seven artillery depots in Ukraine

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Sunday its forces had destroyed seven artillery and missile depots in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk.

Reuters · Oct 2, 2022

Mark Hamill calls for more drones for Ukraine to fight Russian invasion

Star Wars actor promotes Ukrainian drive for donations and compares Russia to ‘evil empire’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

Pope begs Putin to end 'spiral of violence and death', fears nuclear war

Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the "spiral of violence and death" in Ukraine, saying on Sunday that the crisis was risking a nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.

Reuters · Oct 2, 2022

Russia faces new battlefield setback and Jair Bolsonaro could 'subvert democracy'

WITH every day that passes the war in Ukraine deepens and its ram­ifications widen. Around the same time on Friday that Russian president Vladimir…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 2, 2022

AP News Digest 5:30 a.m.

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The Independent UK · Oct 2, 2022

Woman with over 5ft-long hair says strangers are constantly asking to touch it

Ivanna Stelmakh from Lviv, Ukraine, has 61ins-long locks after always dreaming of having long hair and deciding to grow it out from the age of 17-years-old

Daily Mirror · Oct 2, 2022

U.N. ship to deliver Ukrainian wheat to Somalia -ministry

A fifth vessel chartered by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), NEW ISLAND, has arrived at Ukraine's Black Sea port of Chornomorsk and will deliver Ukrainian wheat to Somalia, Ukraine's infrastructure ministry said on Sunday.

Reuters · Oct 2, 2022