The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Polina, a social worker and mother of three young boys, fled Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine when she was six months pregnant.

If you told me a year ago that the Russian army would be performing as incompetently in Ukraine as it is today, I would have responded with a sarcastic chuckle. And yet, 12 months into Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II, this is precisely what has occurred. The Ukrainians…

Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces had captured Hrianykivka, a village in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region that is well to the north of most significant fighting.

When Russian tanks began rolling across the border towards Kharkiv almost a year ago, lives were up-ended. So Vlada Chernykh, Ajuna Morozova and Alina Voronchikhina decided to join the volunteer Khartia Battalion, fighting for their city and their country.

Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow's forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew back to their side of the border, 40 kilometres north of Ukraine's second largest city. But one year on, the people of Kharkiv are still…

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered seismic changes in the lives of most Ukrainians. Days before Moscow launched its attack, FRANCE 24’s Mehdi Chebil visited a training centre in Kharkiv where civilian reservists prepared for a war many still hoped to avoid. Twelve months later, he returned to the…

Thousands of miles away from her home town of Abernethy, Martha Aitken has set up a soup and goulash network that brings warm food to people in bombed-out settlements around Kharkiv.

‘That has come at a huge cost to the Russian army,’ UK defence secretary says

Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Russian region of Chechnya, said in an interview aired on Monday that Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine by the end of the year and it would be wrong to negotiate with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.