Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

SHOCKING: 3 - You Need To See This

Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route

Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in a scene that echoed last month's siege of the port of Mariupol.

Reuters

Cholera warning from Mariupol mayor – as it happened

This blog is closed. Live coverage will resume later.

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m never going back’: the high-profile Russian defectors rejecting war

Gazprombank’s Igor Volobuyev and diplomat Boris Bondarev are among the Russian elite to oppose Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Large convoy from Mariupol reaches safety, refugees talk of 'devastating' escape

A large convoy of cars and vans carrying refugees from the ruins of Mariupol arrived in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday after waiting days for Russian troops to allow them to leave.

Reuters

Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine's first president, dies at 88

Leonid Kravchuk, a former communist who helped sign the Soviet Union's death warrant and then served as the first president of independent Ukraine, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.

Reuters

'I'm not afraid', says ex-Gazprombank executive who defected to Ukraine

A former senior executive at Russian lender Gazprombank said on Thursday that he fled Russia for Ukraine hoping to take up arms against Moscow's invasion and that he believed President Vladimir Putin was leading Russia to catastrophe.

Reuters

Ukraine says Russian forces 'stole' safety equipment from Chernobyl, 'special work' needed to repair reactor site

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has called Russia's temporary occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power station "very, very dangerous" and offered to help Ukraine repair damage caused to the stricken plant.

ABC News

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Kyiv pulls down Soviet-era monument symbolising Russian-Ukrainian friendship

Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday dismantled a huge Soviet-era monument in the centre of Kyiv meant to symbolise friendship between Russia and Ukraine, a response to Moscow's invasion, according to the city's mayor.

Reuters

Ukrainian children delight in painting Easter eggs

Children in Kyiv, including evacuees from other parts of the country, decorated traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs on Friday - but this year they have taken on a more patriotic tone.

Reuters

West pledges to punish Russia over civilian killings in Bucha

The United States and European countries pledged on Monday to punish Moscow over civilian killings in northern Ukraine, where a mass grave and tied bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town seized back from Russian forces.

Reuters

Ukraine accuses Russia of civilian 'massacre'; Moscow denies it

(Adds Russia calling for UN meeting; Guterres calling for investigation; other details)

Reuters

Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl's 'Red Forest', workers say

Russian soldiers who seized the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster drove their armoured vehicles without radiation protection through a highly toxic zone called the "Red Forest", kicking up clouds of radioactive dust, workers at the site said.

Reuters

Biden says Putin could use chemical, biological weapons in Ukraine

Ukraine's military warned the public on Tuesday of more indiscriminate Russian shelling from bogged-down Russian troops, and U.S. President Joe Biden issued his strongest warning yet that Russia is considering using chemical weapons.

Reuters

Western allies to expel key Russian banks from global system; Ukraine vows to fight on

Western allies announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow on Saturday, including kicking key Russian banks off the main global payments system, as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.

Reuters

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

1 2 3

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Atomic Energy Agency

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.