The Latest Breaking News from Donbas

Liz Truss says reports of Ukrainian military activity in Donbas are ‘straight out of the Kremlin playbook’

Fears Russia is trying to create pretext for attack as nursery school in Stanytsia Luhanska is hit

US relocating remaining embassy staff to Lviv, Antony Blinken confirms

Russia could launch invasion of Ukraine ‘almost immediately’, foreign secretary warns a Cobra meeting, after PM tells Putin to step back from precipice

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