The Latest Breaking News from Ukraine

Film director Karen Shakhnazarov made several candid statements while discussing Ukraine’s advance into Kursk

Ukraine said Friday its incursion into Russian territory was aimed at forcing Russia to negotiate on "fair" terms, as Moscow's troops announced new gains in eastern Ukraine.

Secrecy was key in attack that has opened a new front in the war and left Russians looking leaden-footed

While Belarus’s Lukashenko has commented on the cross-border attacks, Central Asian nations stay mum.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said Russian forces were initially disorganised following Ukraine’s lightning offensive

The Russian army closed in on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk on Friday, a key logistics hub through which supplies are transported to troops and towns on the eastern front, while Kyiv urged civilians living there to speed up evacuations. In the meantime, Ukraine said its forces have continued…

A daring Ukrainian military push into Russia’s Kursk region has seen Kyiv’s forces seize scores of villages, attack air bases and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians in what has become the largest attack on the country since World War II

As the war enters its 903rd day, these are the main developments.

Ukraine sets up military commandant’s office in Kursk; Russians grind on towards strategic Pokrovsk in Donbas. What we know on day 905