The Latest Breaking News from Mykolaiv

Russia and Ukraine are vying to control vital grain routes, but who will win?

Intelligence claims operation is part of Russia’s blockade of grain exports, which threatens to trigger global famine

Explosions were heard in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said, urging residents to take shelter.

At least two sunflower oil tanks at a terminal in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Mykolaiv were seriously damaged in a Russian rocket attack, according to photos released on Thursday by the local emergency service.

The Ukrainian president made unannounced visits to several cities where there had been heavy fighting

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has paid another visit to troops on the front lines of Ukraine's war against Russia, praising soldiers holding forward positions as brave and hard-working and vowing the country will prevail. A video posted to Zelenskiy's official Telegram account on Saturday showed the president in his trademark khaki…

Volodymyr Zelenskiy gives medals to Ukrainian troops in southern city as war with Russia grinds on in east

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has paid another visit to troops on the front lines of Ukraine's war against Russia, praising soldiers holding forward positions as brave and hard-working and vowing the country will prevail.

For the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retake ground in the wheat fields and empty villages northwest of the city of Kherson, the liberation of one of Ukraine's most strategically important Black Sea cities feels tantalisingly close.

Scott Sibley, 36, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, became the first British soldier to die fighting in Ukraine when he was killed by a mortar shell in the village of Lymany in the Mykolaiv region

As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.