Russia And Ukraine News

Russia aims to widen east Ukraine battle, claims to have overrun a key rail hub

Having failed to capture Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, early in the war, the Russians set out to seize parts of the eastern industrial region Donbas not already controlled by pro-Moscow separatists

Ukraine pledges to do 'everything' to defend Donbas from Russian onslaught

A Lugansk police official, cited by Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti, said Severodonetsk was 'now surrounded' and Ukrainian troops could no longer leave the city

Ukraine fears repeat of Mariupol horrors in Donbas, officials plead for weapons to stop the onslaught

Hints of Russia's strategy for the Donbas can be found in Mariupol, where Moscow is consolidating its control through measures including state-controlled broadcast programming and overhauled school curricula

Ukraine Conflict: Russia's claim of Mariupol's capture fuels concern for prisoners of war

Russia claimed full control of the Azovstal steel plant, which for weeks was the last holdout in Mariupol, now in ruins with more than 20,000 residents feared dead

Ukraine war: Russia claims to have taken full control of Mariupol after three-month siege                          

Russia's state news agency RIA Novosti quoted the defence ministry as saying a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters who had been holed up at the steelworks had surrendered since 16 May

Red Cross registers hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war from Mariupol

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that the registrations of Ukrainian prisoners of war began on 17 May under an agreement between Russia and Ukraine

Russian war effort runs into military hurdles, loses diplomatic ground as Finland and Sweden move to join NATO

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, meeting with top diplomats from the alliance in Berlin, said the war 'is not going as Moscow had planned'

Russian forces hit Ukraine's east as Finland moves toward NATO bid

Finland's president and prime minister said Thursday that the Nordic country should apply 'without delay' for membership in the Western alliance, founded in part to counter the Soviet Union

Ukraine offers to release Russian prisoners of war in exchange for hurt Mariupol fighters

Ukraine's top prosecutor said her office charged Russian Sergeant Vadin Shyshimarin, 21, in the killing of a 62-year-old civilian who was gunned down while riding a bicycle

Vladimir Putin to mark Victory Day as Russian forces push forward in Ukraine assault

Determined to show a success in a war now in its 11th week, Russian troops have targeted the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol