The Latest Breaking News from Lyman

Ukrainian forces on Saturday entered the eastern town of Lyman in the Donetsk region, a logistics hub for Russian forces that has been under Moscow’s control since spring, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s military said. Russia’s defence ministry said its troops had withdrawn from the town hours after Ukraine’s army said…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday said Kyiv's forces had achieved "significant results" in the east of the country and mentioned the Russian-occupied stronghold of Lyman, but without giving details.

(This Sept 29 story has been refiled to correct date)

Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony in the Kremlin

Russia has confirmed it will formally annex parts of Ukraine where occupied areas held a Kremlin-orchestrated “referendum” on living under Moscow’s rule that the Ukrainian government and the West denounced as illegal and rigged

A fourth leak to the Nord Stream pipelines conveying natural gas from Russia to Germany has been reported off southern Sweden

António Guterres warns Putin against annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia before expected announcement on Friday

A Ukrainian woman lost a hand, a foot, and her unborn child when a Russian rocket blasted her apartment building.

Kateryna Herman, 35, was seriously injured when Russian forces shelled her apartment building in Lyman, Donetsk, with the mum-to-be losing her unborn baby