The Latest Breaking News from Kharkiv

Valery Petrovich Sorokin, 66, didn't want to leave his home outside of Kharkiv. He suffers from arthritis and struggles to move. But, a month into the war, as Russian bombs fell around him, his family told him he had to go to Poland with them.

Iryna and her daughters and niece fled to Dublin with just their backpacks and one gym bag

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the eastern city of Kharkiv has been the site of severe bombing. While the Russian Ministry of Defence has claimed since February 27 that it is only hitting strategic military targets, amateur images verified and analysed by the FRANCE 24…

A video shared widely online as early as March 27 purports to show, according to its caption on YouTube, Ukrainian soldiers shooting Russian prisoners of war (POW) in their legs. The FRANCE 24 Observers team analysed the video and was able to pinpoint its location. Despite some suggestions that the…

Western officials believe about 20 Russian generals were deployed to Ukraine to oversee the war

Boris Johnson defends ‘generous’ record on refugees yet just 2,700 visas have been issued under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, the Home Office says

Projectile struck a residential building after attack by Russian forces on the northern Ukrainian city

Photographs taken by The Independent reveal the scale of destruction caused by weeks of bombardment

Before hostilities, many in the northeastern Ukrainian city empathised with Russia. Now, after weeks of shelling, views have changed. Kim Sengupta, who reported from Kharkiv before the conflict, returns to a city transformed