Ukraine will lose without "urgent help" from the West, Andrzej Duda says

An air-raid alert was declared in all parts of the country

Britain, one of the biggest contributors of aid to Ukraine, recently committed to sending tanks

Kyiv and the West say Russia has been pouring troops and mercenaries into eastern Ukraine in recent weeks.

The Kremlin’s soldiers are threatening to cut off the two main roads into the front-line city

Croatian President Zoran Milanovic made this comment as part of his objection to sending military aid to Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin threatened to kill Boris Johnson in a missile strike, warning him “it would only take a minute”, the former UK prime minister has revealed.

An analysis of satellite imagery shared exclusively with The Daily Beast provides a snapshot of Moscow’s “worried” response to a major offensive expected this year.

Vladimir Putin fired off the mother of all retaliations in response to the West offering tanks to Ukraine.

A new iron fist should confer an advantage over Russia, but the stakes are rising

Several senior Ukrainian officials have resigned amid a shake-up of personnel across President Volodymyr Zelensky's government.

The United States has committed more than $27.4 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded in February last year.

Denys Monastyrsky, who has died aged 42 in a helicopter crash near Kyiv, is the most senior Ukrainian official to die since the war began almost a year ago.

The three main figures in Ukraine's interior ministry have been killed in a helicopter crash beside a nursery in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.

Apparent victory in salt-mining town comes at a high cost for Russia

• Ukrainian ingenuity has impressed US officials, who have praised Kyiv's ability to 'MacGyver' cheap but effective solutions in the war against Russia.
• Ukrainian ingenuity has impressed US officials, who have praised Kyiv's ability to 'MacGyver' cheap but effective solutions in the war against Russia.

Russian missiles have caused devastation across Ukraine, striking an apartment building and knocking out critical power infrastructure.

The targets of the attack, in which many people were injured, was Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, authorities said

Russia says it has taken control of a gateway town in Ukraine, in what could mark its first big battlefield gain since the start of the invasion.

According to latest consumer price index, cost of living dropped 0.1% in December while inflation rate fell from 7.1% in November