The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

PM travels to Washington next week as the only major UK party leader who has not backed calls to hike the defence budget to 2.5 per cent of Britain’s GDP by 2030

President Emmanuel Macron said that France was entering a "new era" three years after Russia invaded Ukraine and that he planned to tell US President Donald Trump that he could not be weak with Vladimir Putin.

In a world where national borders define sovereignty, there exists a place that functions like a country in every sense—but officially, it doesn’t exist. We are here to talk about Transnistria, a breakaway region on the eastern edge of Moldova, sandwiched between the Dniester River and Ukraine. While it has…

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Have your say: Russia condemned Keir Starmer’s latest plan as ‘unacceptable,’ warning that any Nato troops in Ukraine would be seen as a ‘direct threat’