A dog stolen by Russian soldiers and given to Chechen leader Kadyrov as a 'trophy' has finally been freed and returned to a Ukrainian servicewoman in a New Year prisoner exchange. American Pit Bull Terrier Adik was taken from a Ukrainian servicewoman in June and reportedly gifted to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov as a 'trophy'.

Ukrainians usually celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, as do the Russians. But not this year, or at least not all of them. Some Orthodox Ukrainians have decided to observe Christmas on Dec. 25, like many Christians around the world. Yes, this has to do with the war, and yes, they have the blessing of their local church.

Emily and David met through their passionate support of Ukraine online, and then fell in love. He proposed with a message on a 155mm artillery shell.

Secret battle plans, intercepted communications and Russian soldiers explain how a “walk in the park” became a catastrophe for Russia.

Yan Rachinsky, from rights group Memorial, tells the BBC he ignored the order from the Kremlin.

Nato foreign ministers are meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday in Bucharest; US says aid will help Ukraine deal with damage to energy infrastructure...

This was stated by acting head of the State Environmental Inspectorate, Ihor Zubovych, at a press conference "Damage caused by Russia to Ukraine's environment over nine months of war." "To date, more than UAH 1.387 trillion have been calculated using only three available methods. Damage caused to atmospheric air reached UAH 927.6 billion, land due to pollution and contamination – UAH 443.7 billion, and the total amount of damage caused to water bodies is UAH 15.7 billion,” the official said.

EU officials attack Joe Biden over sky-high gas prices, weapons sales and trade as Vladimir Putin’s war threatens to destroy Western unity.

Olga Lehan's home near the Irpin River was flooded when Ukraine destroyed a dam to prevent Russian forces from storming Kyiv just days into the war. Weeks later, the water from her tap turned brown from pollution. "It was not safe to drink," she said of the tap water in her village of Demydiv, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) north of Kyiv on the tributary of the Dnipro River.

Renowned graffiti-artist Banksy has unveiled his latest work on a building devastated by shelling in Ukraine. Banksy posted a picture on Instagram of the artwork, a gymnast doing a handstand amid debris, in Borodyanka. Murals spotted in and around Ukraine's capital Kyiv had led to speculation the anonymous artist was working in the war-torn country.

It's been more than eight months since Russian troops first invaded Ukraine in 2022, and there appears to be no end in sight. On Tuesday, award-winning actor Sean Penn gifted Ukraine a "symbol of faith" to get through the ongoing conflict – his Oscar statuette.

When Russia's drone strike hit a residential building in central Kyiv on the morning of Oct. 17, emergency workers turned up at the scene within minutes. As rescuers worked to put out the fire and clear out the rubble of the severely damaged high-rise apartment complex, medics provided first aid to the wounded. Police officers documented preliminary casualties.

Here’s a proposal that could end starvation around the globe. Never again need a human being lack the food to live. Never again need a single child or adult suffer the horrors of starvation. Hunger as a danger to anyone can be made a thing of the past. All that is required, apart from basic skills in distributing resources, is 3 percent of the military budget of the United States, or 1.5 percent of all the military budgets in the world.

Companies are supposed to have around 100 personnel, but some are being deployed with just six men, it’s claimed.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of preparing to blow up a dam at a hydroelectric plant in southern Ukraine, which would lead to a "large-scale disaster". In his overnight address he said the Kakhovka dam on the Dnieper river had been mined by Russian forces, according to Ukrainian information.

KIVSHARIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — Nine-year-old Artem Panchenko helps his grandmother stoke a smoky fire in a makeshift outdoor kitchen beside their nearly abandoned apartment block. The light is falling fast and they need to eat before the setting sun plunges their home into cold and darkness.

Newly mobilized recruits are already at the front in Ukraine, a growing chorus of reports says, fighting and dying after only days of training.

Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor’s office in a key Ukrainian city controlled by the separatists as Russia’s war nears the eight-month mark. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said Russian rockets struck a city across from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, wounding six people.

We are making a new Ukraine,” says Tetiana Burianova, as she surveys her volunteers clearing up a shattered house, part of a day’s reconstruction efforts in a war-ravaged village about 75 miles north-west of Kyiv. While the government – fighting the war against Russia to the east and south – has struggled to clear and rebuild homes, the state’s absence has left a gap that Burianova and her fast-growing band of twenty- and thirtysomethings have begun to fill.