People in eastern Ukraine know the Russians are about to step up their offensive here. Even the dogs on the streets seem to know, and can be heard barking whenever there’s a heavy thump of artillery in the distance.
Hundreds...
The US and Britain say they are looking into reports that chemical weapons have been used by Russian forces in attacking the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.
Ukraine’s Azov regiment said three soldiers were injured by “a poisonous substance” in an...
The sound of Russian artillery grew louder to a Ukrainian frontline position in Luhansk. The rumble of shelling interspersed with the occasional burst of small arms fire within 500 metres of the Russian positions.
This may be a conflict in...
Clear evidence of Russian troops rounding up Ukrainian civilians and using them as human shields has been found by the BBC.
In multiple interviews in Obukhovychi, villagers say they were taken from their homes at gunpoint and held in a...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, has warned that the worst atrocities committed by Russian troops departing from the north of the country are yet to be discovered.
He said the town of Borodyanka may have suffered more than others.
Horrific images of...
Russian forces have killed a village head, her husband and her son, Ukrainian officials say.
This – and the discovery of the bodies of five men dressed in civilian clothes – has added to growing evidence of atrocities on the...
Moscow and Kiev have conducted several rounds of peace talks with the aim of searching for a political settlement to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, which has intensified over the past month.
The outcomes of these talks, as delegations from...
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which comes at a time when economies worldwide are still grappling with the negative effects of COVID-19, poses a new challenge to global food security, an official with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...
Russia has announced it will “drastically reduce” military combat operations in two key areas of Ukraine “to boost mutual trust” in peace talks.
The decision to scale back operations around the capital, Kyiv, and the northern city of Chernihiv is...
Desmond Chinaza Muokwudo, a 30-year-old Nigerian student who has recently fled Ukraine, spent 11 years saving up for an education in Europe.
Once a pipeline welder from Anambra state, he dreamt of studying international relations – but he struggled with...
