The Latest Breaking News from Igor Konashenkov

Intense fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces has turned Severodonetsk and Lysychansk into “dead cities”, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

Dozens of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks have been returned to Ukraine by the Russians who now occupy the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol

The Russian Defence Ministry says that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian troops holed up in their last stronghold in Mariupol have handed themselves over. Read more on Dynamite News:

The battered port city of Mariupol appears on the brink of falling to Russian forces after seven weeks under siege.

President Vladimir Putin continues to claim his ‘special military operation’ is going to plan despite deaths

Russian forces have renewed missile strikes on Kyiv and intensified shelling of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city

Ukraine news from April 17: Ukrainian fighters are holding out in the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol.

The bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital following Russia’s withdrawal — most of them fatally shot, police said Friday, an indication that many people were “simply executed.” The jarring number emerged shortly after Russia’s Defense Ministry promised to step up…

More than 900 bodies of civilians have been discovered in the Kyiv region following the withdrawal of Russian forces