The United States and global allies unveiled new security assurances for Ukraine at a Nato summit yesterday, designed to bolster the country’s defences against Russia over the long haul while Kyiv strives for membership of the alliance.

Nato leaders yesterday agreed that Ukraine’s future lies within the alliance but they stopped short of handing Kyiv the invitation or timetable for accession it sought, a stance that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier criticised as “absurd”.

US President Joe Biden told CNN in an exclusive interview that Ukraine is not yet ready for Nato membership, saying that Russia’s war in Ukraine needs to end before the alliance can consider adding Kyiv to its ranks.

Russian air defence systems shot down a cruise missile near the city of Kerch, Moscow-installed Crimea Governor Sergei Aksyonov wrote on the Telegram messaging app yesterday.

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday secured Turkey’s crucial backing for Ukraine’s Nato aspirations after winning a US pledge for cluster munitions.

Like landmines, widely-banned cluster munitions often pose a deadly threat years after being deployed. Now the US will send cluster bombs to Ukraine to support the country's counter-offensive against Russia

The United Nations condemned the civilian cost inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine as the fighting passed the 500-day mark with no end to the conflict in sight

Ukraine said yesterday its troops had advanced by more than a kilometre near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces.

A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine yesterday, killing five people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is still in Russia, Belarus's president said today, despite a deal with the Kremlin for him to move to Belarus following his failed insurrection last month.."As far as Prigozhin is concerned, he is in Saint Petersburg... He is not in Belarus," Alexander Lukas

A missile attack on an apartment block in western Ukraine's Lviv killed four people today, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in the city since Russia's invasion of the country began

Russia is pessimistic about the prospects of renewing the Black Sea grain deal because no progress has been made in implementing accompanying agreements that pertain to Russian exports, the Kremlin said yesterday.

A top Russian propagandist on Sunday accused the Wagner boss of going "off the rails" after receiving billions in public funds, as Moscow's new narrative takes shape after Wagner's brief mutiny

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday repeated his country's call for dialogue and diplomacy to resolve the war in Ukraine in a telephone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an Indian statement said

The Kremlin said today that Russian forces only hit military-linked targets in Ukraine, after a strike on a restaurant in the eastern city of Kramatorsk killed at least 10 people

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he persuaded Russian President Vladimir Putin not to "wipe out" mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, in response to what the Kremlin cast as a mutiny that pushed Russia towards civil war

A Russian missile struck a restaurant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding 56, emergency services said, as rescue crews combed the rubble in search of casualties

General Sergey Surovikin, the deputy commander of Russia's military operations in Ukraine, had advance knowledge that the mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning a rebellion against Moscow's defence officials, the New York Times reported on Tuesday

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin arrived in Belarus on Tuesday under a deal that ended a brief mutiny against the Russian military by his fighters, state news agency BELTA said, quoting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin flew to Belarus from Russia on Tuesday after a mutiny that has dealt the biggest blow to President Vladimir Putin's authority since he came to power more than 23 years ago..Putin initially vowed to crush the mutiny, comparing it to the war-time tur