Residents in parts of the Kursk region have been warned to shelter in basements, and a growing number have been evacuated Ukraine's top commander has said Kyiv's forces control 1,000 sq km of Russian territory as they press their biggest cross-border incursion in two-and-a-half years of full-scale war. Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukraine continued to "conduct an offensive operation in the Kur

Why has Ukraine launched a cross-border attack on Russia? When Kyiv launched a cross-border raid into Russia’s Kursk region bordering Ukraine, the question from some military experts was: “Why?” One of Ukraine’s biggest battlefield issues is manpower. Russia has more soldiers and is inching closer to the eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk. So, sending hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers into Russia its

Police are evacuating villages and Kyiv has sent reinforcements to the Kharkiv region following Russia's incursion Ukraine has pulled back its troops from several villages in the border region of Kharkiv following continued pressure from Russian forces. Soldiers had come under heavy fire and moved to "more advantageous positions" in two areas of the north-eastern region, a military spokesman said.

Russian State TV showed destroyed buildings and Russian soldiers in what it said were the outskirts of Mariinka Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has said his troops have seized the key town of Mariinka in eastern Ukraine. Mr Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin assault units had taken the "powerfully fortified" area just outside Donetsk, a Russian-held regional capital. The commander of Ukra

Soldiers prepare to mark Christmas outside Kupiansk, an area where Russian forces have made advances Many Ukrainian Orthodox Christians are preparing to celebrate Christmas on 25 December for the first time this year. Ukraine has traditionally used the Julian calendar, also used by Russia, where Christmas falls on 7 January. In a further shift from Russia, it is now marking Christmas according to

The Ukrainians are "very quick" to learn mine clearing techniques, says British Staff Sgt Kevin Engstrom Specialist British military bomb disposal teams are training Ukrainian engineers to clear Russian minefields. Ukraine is now the most heavily mined country in the world, and it's slowing down Ukrainian military advances. The training by British Army sappers - combat engineers, some of whom face

Kyiv says its troops are gaining momentum in what continues to be a lengthy and bloody counter-offensive.

The total number of Ukrainian and Russian troops killed or wounded since the war in Ukraine began 18 months ago is nearing 500,000, U.S. officials said, a staggering toll as Russia assaults its next-door neighbor and tries to seize more territory. The officials cautioned that casualty figures remained difficult to estimate because Moscow is believed to routinely undercount its war dead and injured

Ukrainian troops have advanced, at most, about 10 miles in two areas. Is the counter-offensive working?

Distinctive marks from a cluster munition in the roof of a car next to a playground in Kharkiv The US has announced it is complying with a Ukrainian request to supply it with controversial cluster munitions.

The West now plans to train Ukrainian pilots on F16s. But when will they be able to use them in the war? Western allies are set to announce their plans to train Ukrainian pilots to fly US-made F-16s when they meet in Brussels today. But it's still not clear which countries will be willing to provide the jets, how many, or even when. Supplying Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets will "not be a silver bu

Ukraine has been planning its counter-offensive for months - and it now may finally be under way Was this the week that Ukraine's long-anticipated counter-offensive finally got under way? Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to think so. "We can definitely state that this Ukrainian offensive has begun," he said in a video interview published on Telegram on Friday. In some ways, it's already been

A huge dam in the Russian-controlled area of southern Ukraine has been destroyed, unleashing a flood. Ukraine's military and Nato have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.

For months, Bakhmut in the Donetsk region has been at the heart of intense fighting (file photo) Ukrainian forces have advanced around Bakhmut, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar has said, describing the eastern city as the "epicentre of hostilities".

The leader of Russia's Wagner mercenary group says he will withdraw his troops from the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on 10 May because of ammunition shortages. Yevgeny Prigozhin's statement came after he posted a video of him walking among his dead fighters' bodies, blaming top Russian defence officials.

Kremlin drone: Zelensky denies Ukraine attacked Putin or Moscow Watch: Ros Atkins on... the Russian social media videos appearing to show Kremlin drone attack Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied his country carried out an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin, which Russia says was an attempt on President Vladimir Putin's life. "We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territor