Ukrainians hold out in eastern city
The war between Russia and Ukraine is now into its 100th day, with Moscow having been driven back from Kyiv but launching a huge new assault in the east.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is now into its 100th day, with Moscow having been driven back from Kyiv but launching a huge new assault in the east.
Russian forces, 98 days into their invasion of Ukraine, are pounding targets including key infrastructure in other eastern and southern areas.
As the Russian offensive continues across Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, the European Union agreed to ban most imports of Russian oil.
Russia has concentrated its firepower on Sievierodonetsk, the last major population centre still held by Ukrainian forces in the eastern Luhansk province.
Ukraine's industrial Donbas region, the focus of recent Russian offensives, has been destroyed, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says.
Ukraine has ordered its garrison in Mariupol to stand down, but the ultimate outcome of Europe's bloodiest battle for decades remains unresolved.
The final surrender of Mariupol would bring a close to a near three month siege of the once prosperous Ukrainian city of 400,000 people.
Cannes has rolled out the red carpet for Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who used his appearance to call for filmmakers not to be silent about Russia's invasion.
A surrender appears to have marked the end of the battle of Mariupol, where Ukraine believes tens of thousands of people were killed by Russian forces.
Russian losses in Ukraine are mounting, after an armoured column was caught trying to cross a river in the Donbas region.
Russian forces have suffered more setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine as diplomatic pressure continues on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to stop the war.
Ukrainian forces are driving Russian troops out of the region around the second largest city Kharkiv, as Finland gets ready to join NATO without delay.
Momentum could be shifting in Ukraine's favour in the northeast, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Russian forces are gradually being pushed out of Kharkiv.
Russian forces have hit targets in the east and south of Ukraine and are pushing to defeat the last Ukrainian troops holding out in a steelworks in Mariupol.
Russia is attacking Ukraine's eastern Donbas region but have so far failed to capture three target areas and the conflict goes on.
Having failed in an assault on Kyiv in the north of Ukraine last month, Russia is trying to fully capture two eastern provinces known as the Donbas.
Russia is reporting blasts in the south of the country, in what a top Ukrainian official has described as "payback" and "karma" for Moscow's invasion.
The risks of nuclear war are "considerable" over the Ukraine conflict, Russia's foreign minister says, as he accuses NATO of waging a proxy war through Kyiv.
Russia says it is allowing a humanitarian corridor for civilians to leave a steel plant in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol.
Visiting US officials have pledged further aid to Ukraine and other countries fearful of Russian aggression, praising its resilience to attacks on the capital.
Ukraine is checking reports that Russian forces used chemical weapons in the besieged city of Mariupol, as civilians flee the east before an expected offensive.
Ukrainian forces have repulsed assaults in the east, UK intelligence says, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warns of a new Russian attack.
Russian forces are readying to focus their assault on Ukraine's east.
Air raid sirens have rung out and civilians are being urged to flee in eastern Ukraine, as the country reels over a Russian attack on a crowded train station.
As Russia appears to be readying new attacks in Ukraine's southeast, a Red Cross convoy will again try to evacuate civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol.
Peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv have resumed as Russia allowed gas to keep flowing to Europe despite a deadline for buyers to pay in roubles or be cut off.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Ukrainian forces are preparing for new Russian attacks in the east as Moscow's attention shifts from the capital Kyiv.
Ukraine's leaders have reacted with scepticism to Russia's offer to scale back military operations around Kyiv.
Russian forces have seized control of a town where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, while street fighting is reported in besieged Mariupol.
President Joe Biden has warned China's Xi Jinping against aiding Moscow's war in Ukraine, as Russia says it's "tightening the noose" around Mariupol.
US President Joe Biden is due to talk with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a bid to stop Beijing supporting Russia's war machine.