Russia says forces claim last Luhansk city
Russia claims its forces now control the eastern Luhansk region after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk, although Ukraine is yet to comment.
Russia claims its forces now control the eastern Luhansk region after capturing the final Ukrainian holdout of Lysychansk, although Ukraine is yet to comment.
Russian forces are fighting to capture Lysychansk, the last big city still held by Ukrainian troops in eastern Luhansk province.
Russia's strikes on Kharkiv have been the worst for weeks in the area where normal life had been returning since Ukraine pushed Putin's forces back.
The battle for Sievierodonetsk, the largest city Ukrainian forces still hold in the eastern Donbas region, has become the focus of attention.
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine's Donbas region but a Ukrainian counter offensive is underway near the Russian-held town of Izium.
Australians and New Zealanders have joined Turkish and other dignitaries at the former Gallipoli battlefields for a dawn service to remember those killed there.
Russia says its forces have hit hundreds of targets in Ukraine overnight while authorities in the western city of Lviv say a missile attack there killed seven.
There have been no reports of activity in the strategic city of Mariupol following a Russian ultimatum warning Ukrainian forces to lay down their arms.
A former SAS soldier giving evidence at a defamation suit launched by Ben Roberts-Smith has denied making up claims he staged a mock execution and bullied him.
Queensland's premier has reflected on her grandparents' journey of escape from war-torn Europe as she called on for more to be done for Ukrainian refugees.
Ukraine's case against Russia lodged at the World Court centres on the interpretation of a 1948 treaty on the prevention of genocide.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there will be no decision on nuclear propelled submarines ahead of the federal election due in May.
Ukrainians fleeing the war are expected to being arriving in Australia within days.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the largest of its kind in Europe, is on fire after an attack by Russian troops, the nearby town's mayor says.
There is no indication of elevated radiation levels at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, after a fire broke out in a training building nearby.
There has been a backlash against Paralympic chiefs after they decided Russian and Belarusian athletes could compete in the Winter Games.
The national security committee will meet on Tuesday to finalise what lethal aid Australia will provide Ukraine along with other forms of support.
Ukrainian forces are holding off Russian troops advancing on the capital Kyiv as the biggest assault on a European state since WWII enters a fourth day.
Declassified cabinet documents from the Howard government in 2001 provide insight into how Australia's leadership grappled with the 9/11 terrorist attack.