War

By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light, Reuters Russian special forces crept for miles through a gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha in an attempt to surprise Ukrainian forces as... Audio

The victims included women and children from the Alawite minority.

Britain and European countries have been scrambling to present a united front following US President Donald Trump's sudden withdrawal of support for Ukraine.

Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded by Russian forces there.

The Ukrainian president's approval rating at home has risen by 10 percentage points since his White House spat with Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of imposing large-scale US sanctions on Russia, days after pausing aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine, calling on both countries to negotiate a peace…

Hamas said Trump's threats risk ending the fragile ceasefire, after the US president warned that unless hostages were freed, the people of Gaza would be "DEAD".

The suspension followed a halt this week to US military aid to Kyiv.

The US president responded angrily to a report quoting Zelensky as saying the end of the war is "very, very far away".

Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald Trump's America? Video

He told Morning Report that as a Ukrainian, he had his own emotions about the exchange - but as a diplomat, he had to look to what was next. Audio

Urgent talks with Trump, Zelensky and Macron have cemented the idea a "coalition of the willing" in Europe needs to quickly come up with a peace plan, Keir Starmer says. Audio

Hamas wants Israel to move to second phase of ceasefire, but Israel says hostages must be released for the ceasefire to continue.

A top White House official alleges Zelensky has "personal motivations".