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US president says threat of Russian invasion ‘very high’, after Ukraine government source says shelling ‘looks like provocation’

Intense negotiations over the past several days seem to indicate that there might be a diplomatic way out of Ukraine’s Donbas crisis. After yesterday’s Normandy format talks between Russia, Ukraine, France, and Germany in Berlin, all sides emphasised that, despite the lack of a breakthrough, discussions will continue.

Russian provocation teams claim two 20-strong units of UK-trained Polish-speaking troops are stationed in Donbas, in the latest apparent attempt to fabricate a threat of attack from Ukraine

A 435-mile drive across the Ukraine’s southern coast reveals what Russia would face if they invaded, and why so many believe it just can’t happen. Marc Champion reports

Olena Bilozerska, 42, has fought in the blown-up buildings and trenches of contested Donbas, east Ukraine and says she will do it again if Russian troops invade

It comes as Russia continues to pour troops and heavy military equipment into areas on the border with Ukraine as tensions simmer in the region

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's Memory Wall of the Fallen Defenders stretches down a city block. It is covered with rows of portraits of the 15,000 young volunteers and bearded veterans who died fighting the Russians over the past eight years.

Destruction of homes in a small village near frontlines in Donbas raises fears of a worsening humanitarian crisis.