A 21-year-old Russian soldier has pleaded guilty to killing an unarmed civilian, in the first war crimes trial in Ukraine since the war started.
Vadim Shishimarin admitted shooting a 62-year-old man a few days after the invasion began. He faces life (...)
Russia said Wednesday that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol since Monday.
It comes the day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that evacuations at the plant -- a powerful symbol (...)
Ukraine has confirmed that hundreds of its fighters trapped for more than two months in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have been evacuated.
Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar said 53 badly wounded soldiers were taken to the town of Novoazovsk, (...)
Almost 76 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, countless civilians remain caught up in the horror and destruction of war, UN rights investigators said on Tuesday.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine confirmed that more than 3,380 (...)
Three weeks since his release, Volodymyr Khropun still looks visibly shaken by the trauma he's endured. A Red Cross volunteer, he was captured by Russian forces, and deported to Russia.
On 18 March, Volodymyr was driving a school bus to the village (...)
The Ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged the loss of several towns and villages in eastern regions as Russia steps up its ground offensive.
Heavy fighting is ongoing on three fronts, with Russian forces being reinforced and resupplied from bases (...)
Mysterious explosions in Transnistria, a breakaway Russian-controlled territory in Moldova bordering on Ukraine, have raised fears that the Ukraine conflict may be spreading.
Separatist authorities said Ukrainian "infiltrators" were responsible. But (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the US secretaries of state and defense on Sunday night in what was the highest-level visit to the country's capital by an American delegation since the start of the war.
Zelensky's last face-to-face (...)
Ukraine's allies have pledged to send more weapons to help it defend against a renewed Russian offensive.
The US and others vowed to send artillery, anti-tank and air defence aid to Kyiv during a 90-minute video call on Tuesday.
Ukraine says it (...)
The deadline of a Russian ultimatum demanding the surrender of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol has passed with no sign that the troops have complied.
The final Ukrainian holdouts, reportedly accompanied by 1,000 civilians, have taken shelter in the (...)
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia has launched an assault to seize the eastern Donbas region.
Moscow bombarded cities with rocket and artillery fire on Monday and in a video address Zelensky said that the battle "for the Donbas (...)
Ukrainian officials have rejected demands by Russian forces that defenders of the city of Mariupol should lay down their arms.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in an interview with ABC that Ukrainian forces still in the city would "fight to the (...)
One of the Russian Navy's most important warships is either floating abandoned or at the bottom of the Black Sea, a massive blow to a military struggling against Ukrainian resistance 50 days into Vladimir Putin's invasion of his neighbor.
Russian (...)
Ukraine says it has arrested fugitive pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, seen as President Vladimir Putin's closest ally in the country.
Ukraine's security service SBU posted a photo purportedly showing Medvedchuk in handcuffs and wearing (...)
The Russians have withdrawn from areas around Kyiv, but they've left deeply wounded lives that might never recover from the trauma. The BBC has heard first-hand testimony and found evidence of Ukrainian women being raped by invading soldiers.
In a (...)
Ukraine said more than 30 people are dead and 100 wounded after rockets hit a train station in the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. Thousands of people were at the station at the time as they try to flee Russian attacks, according to the (...)
Ukraine says it urgently needs more weapons from its Western allies to defend itself against Russia.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said more atrocities against civilians like in Bucha could happen if Ukraine doesn't quickly get more military (...)
Humanitarians said on Wednesday that hundreds of people have managed to reach safety after fleeing the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where there's also been condemnation for the killing of Lithuanian filmmaker Mantas Kvedaravicius, as he tried to (...)
An eight-truck convoy of life-saving humanitarian aid provided by the UN and humanitarian partners reached Sievierodonetsk on Tuesday, in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk region, where sustained and intense fighting is taking an enormous toll on (...)
The number of civilian casualties may be much higher in Borodyanka and other liberated Ukrainian cities than Bucha, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on Monday.
"There is already information that the number of victims of (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of committing genocide in Ukraine amid reports that Russian forces were leaving brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in their wake as they withdrew from the Kyiv (...)
Footage of Russian troops shooting a man with his hands up on a highway outside Kyiv at the beginning of March was shared around the world. Now the Russians have been pushed out of the area and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen has been to see the grim (...)
The governor of Ukraine's Chernihiv region says there is no let-up in attacks by Russia, despite its pledge to reduce military activity there.
The governor, Viacheslav Chaus, took to the Telegram messaging app to denounce Russia's promise.
"Do we (...)
Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich suffered symptoms of suspected poisoning at peace talks on the Ukraine-Belarus border earlier this month, sources close to him say.
The Chelsea FC owner — who has now recovered — reportedly suffered sore eyes and (...)
Ukraine's military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has warned that Russia is trying to apply what he called the "Korean scenario" to Ukraine, having failed to take the capital and depose the legitimate government.
He said Russian President (...)
