The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Children in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv created artworks portraying their experience of war while living underground in the city's metro, where residents found refuge from Russian bombs, during three gruelling months last spring. Their striking artworks are now the subject of an exhibition in Paris that runs through November…

Ukrainian army making ‘fast and powerful progress’ in south, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Photo evidence indicates that gold teeth were pulled from Ukrainian torture victims with dozens of dentures also seen in another big plastic box in the liberated Pisky-Radkivski village in the eastern Kharkiv region

Rory Mason died while in fighting in the Kharkiv counteroffensive

Rory Mason, 23, from Dunboyne, Co Meath, was killed on Wednesday, September 28, whilst serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv Region, near the Russian border

The young man was in the Kharkiv region when he died

Ukrainian troops are said to now be within artillery range to attack a key supply road for Russian units in the north-east Kharkiv province

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that troops were winning back dozens of towns from Russian forces while claiming that peace talks with Vladimir Putin were "impossible"

Western officials say Ukraine is dictating the operational tempo on the battlefield

In an abandoned tower block damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine's second city, Olga Kobzar plans to tough out winter for as long as she can without electricity, water and central heating by lighting the gas stove in her kitchen for warmth.

Ukrainian forces are exultant at beating back Russians, but civilians still face difficult months ahead