Ukrainian defence minister says Russian attacks have decreased as Moscow troops are being ‘replaced and regrouped’.
League leaders Shakhtar Donetsk face second-place Dnipro-1 in title showdown as a remarkable season nears its end.
Russian embassy calls US criticism of Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapon deployment to Belarus hypocritical.
All the udpates from May 27 as they happened.
Ukraine’s defence intelligence directorate warns Russia will simulate an attack at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Russia says the border region under attack days after a daring incursion, as two are reported killed in Ukraine.
The Brazilian president says he reiterated to Putin his willingness to talk to both sides, seeking peace.
Japan will freeze the assets of 78 groups and 17 individuals including army officers in Russia, and ban some exports.
As the war enters its 457th day, we take a look at the main developments.
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Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev said Ukraine war is likely to last decades with bouts of fighting and truces.
Washington warns that the Russian mercenary group is prolonging the conflict and causing ‘further chaos’ in Sudan.
Moscow says it will maintain control of the weapons, but Ukraine says Minsk has been ‘taken hostage’.
Unrepaired damage at a Russian-occupied dam has submerged communities on islands along a reservoir in southern Ukraine.
In the past, the G7 countries could make the rules, and most others would fall in line. We ask if those days are gone.
