The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

As the war enters its 994th day, these are the main developments.

€300m fund will help member countries buy defence equipment and increase support to Ukraine; Odesa strike knocks out heating. What we know on day 996

A Russian assault group entered the city for the first time since Moscow’s forces fled in September 2022, say Ukrainian officials

The former Hawaii lawmaker has no intelligence experience and a record of defending dictators

Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence secretary. Alongside Elon Musk, pharmaceutical company entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has been tapped to lead a newly named Department of Government Efficiency.

Russia's opposition will stage a major anti-war, anti-Kremlin demonstration in Berlin this weekend, a vital test for a movement driven into exile by war and repression, and plagued by infighting.

IN DEPTH: Experts tell Andy Gregory and Tom Watling that the real question is how much Kyiv’s troops are able to inflict casualties on the Russians as the price for taking the territory back

When he claimed victory in the early hours of November 6, Donald Trump said he was a man of his word. A hallmark of his second term as US president would be “promises made and promises kept”. Whether or not this would include his promise to resolve the conflict in…

Russian authorities ordered the closure from Thursday of Moscow's award-winning Gulag History Museum, dedicated to the victims of Soviet-era repression.