The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Mayor accuses Moscow of ‘genocide’, saying latest strike shows Putin’s indifference to women and children

Russian missiles targeted Kyiv at sunrise on Friday, killing at least one person and damaging six diplomatic missions and a university in the centre of the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine has raised the stakes with its boldest wartime assassination, killing a high-profile general in Moscow.

Russian missile attack on Kyiv leads to casualties and damage, escalating conflict with Ukraine. International community monitors situation closely.

Russian missile attack in Kyiv causes casualties and damage, with air defenses intercepting all missiles but leading to fires and destruction in the city.

Ukrainian officials say Russia has launched several ballistic missiles at Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least one person and injuring nine others

Kyiv says that 2,200 Russian soldiers have died in the last 24 hours

Ukrainian official says Russia used hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles in the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he needed both Europe and the United States on board to secure a durable peace, as he huddled with EU leaders at their final summit before Donald Trump's inauguration.

As the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held his carefully stage-managed annual phone-in and press conference to answer questions from journalists and ordinary Russians, EU leaders were hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels at their final meeting of the year. Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine loomed large at both events.

John Healey has said Britain needs to ‘make the training a better fit for what the Ukrainians need’ and left the door open to it taking place in the war-torn country