War

Israel launched airstrikes against sites in the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday after militants in the Palestinian enclave fired rockets at Israeli cities, witnesses and security forces said. The Israeli strikes, which Israel said hit a military...

Rocket strike hits Kramatorsk railway station - but Russia denies carrying out the attack Thousands of civilians were at the station trying to evacuate to safer areas of the country, according to the governor of the Donetsk region. More than 30...

Several explosions rocked Kyiv early Wednesday, according to AFP journalists in the city, with emergency services saying two residential buildings were damaged and two people wounded. The blasts came as Russia intensifies attacks on the Ukrainian capital, which was placed...

An air strike on a residential building in Ukraine's capital killed at least one person Monday, the country's emergency service said, as Moscow maintained its devastating assault ahead of a fresh round of talks. The strike, which injured at least...

Around a million and a half refugees have crossed the border into Poland - and around 300,000 have arrived in Warsaw. That's about 15% of the existing population. At the city's Central Station there were thousands - either arriving off...

More than 1.5 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, according to the latest UN data on Sunday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had recorded 1,534,792 refugees on its dedicated website by...

Ukrainian civilians, assisted by the country's military, are evacuating the small city of Irpin, which sits just 20km (12 miles) north-west of Kyiv. The route is a difficult one, with many having to travel by foot along shelled roads...

The biggest in Europe nuclear power plant attacked Firefighters are struggling to reach the power plant because they face "heavy weapons fire" from Russian troops, with Ukraine's foreign minister warning: "If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger...

More than a million Ukrainians have fled their homeland in under a week, latest figures from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reveal. In the six days since Russia's invasion, 1.04 million people have left Ukraine. Of those that left between 24...

Explosions, sirens, ruined homes. Olena Ostaptchenko's only point of reference for what is happening in her home town of Kharkiv is Soviet-era movies about the horrors of World War II. Kharkiv is Ukraine's second city, largely Russian speaking, close to...