The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Fighting intensifies across cities in Kharkiv and Luhansk regions as Russia presses its offensive into the east.

Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday that its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet and destroyed three MI-8 helicopters at an airfield in Ukraine's Kharkiv region.

Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not need to take the plant.

Russia's defense ministry said on Friday that Ukrainian fighters and foreign mercenaries had been "securely blockaded" at the Azovstal steel plant where they have been holding out in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. President Vladimir Putin had ordered his defense minister on Thursday to block off the vast Azovstal complex…

Kharkiv is under an intensifying assault, which has left bodies of civilians in the streets where residents are trapped without power and water, and with little food.

Victor Gubarev stepped out to buy bread when he was killed by a fragment from a shell that landed in front of his apartment block in Kharkiv on Monday, minutes before his daughter arrived to find an ambulance crew standing over his body.

Ukraine's second-largest city Kharkiv was under intense bombardment on Thursday, its mayor Ihor Terekhov said.

Bosses at the Feldman Ecopark zoo in Kharkiv have called for those responsible to be punished for killing the workers, who stayed behind to feed the animals

Artist Pavlo Makov’s role representing Ukraine at the Venice Biennale has become an act of defiance against the Russian invaders, whose attacks on his adopted hometown of Kharkiv have grown more intense in recent days

Marine commander appeals for help as another Russian ultimatum calling for remaining troops in city to surrender expires

Alikhan Yusupov, 10, and 11-year-old relative Miroslava Starkova fled the city of Kharkiv with their families.