The Latest Breaking News from Lviv

LVIV, Ukraine — Russian forces aimed a punishing artillery barrage Saturday at cities, towns and villages in eastern Ukraine, even as Western and Ukrainian military officials and analysts said Moscow’s much-vaunted military offensive in the country’s industrial heartland was being slowed by troop casualties and logistical, supply and morale problems.

Actor was seen in a coffee shop, in a city that has been under attack in recent weeks

Members of the U.S. mission in Ukraine who had relocated to Poland traveled to the country's western city of Lviv on Tuesday, in a first step as Washington works to ensure the return of its diplomats to Ukraine, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

Doctors call for more equipment to be sent to a city where medical facilities are swamped by patients from across Ukraine

Organisations and volunteers are coordinating daily rescues to transport thousands of animals to EU countries, despite the lack of safe evacuation routes. Photojournalist Javier Fergo looks at how they are doing it

Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) - In the basement of the bookshop she manages in western Ukraine, Romana Yaremyn shows hundreds of books stacked half way to the ceiling after they were evacuated from the country's war-torn east.

The family of four were forced to leave their home in Lviv after Putin invaded their homeland and launched airstrikes just 25km from their family home destroying the city.

The equipment, including feeding syringes, cannulas, and ventilators, arrived in Lviv on April 10

Casualties unknown after morning airstrikes fell within an hour of each other, say officials