Hello, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,419 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russian troops are intensifying their offensive on Chasiv Yar, seeking to build up forces and deploying a range of weapons,

Russia says it used its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile and other weapons in a massive strike on Ukraine​. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says a drone hit the Qatar embassy.

With the sides far apart on key issues as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the four-year mark, analysts say the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II is unlikely to end in 2026.

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv overnight on Monday, sparking a fire in one of the city’s districts, according to the Ukrainian military. Ukrainian air defence units were trying to repel the attack, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has noted that Russia's war against Ukraine has now lasted as long as Nazi Germany's war against the Soviet Union (known as the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union),

Kyiv is once again plunged into darkness and cold. More than 1,000 apartment buildings in Ukraine’s capital remain without heating days after a devastating Russian strike crippled the city’s energy system.

President Donald Trump is now officially on board with a sanctions package aimed at Russia, according to a top GOP senator. Sen.

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had struck western Ukraine with a nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile, an ominous warning by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia as U.S.-led negotiations to end the war have gained steam.

Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated 7 times today. Ukraine's Khartiia Brigade on Jan. 12 said it had recaptured the city council building in Kupiansk,

For only the second time, Russia used a new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable by air defenses.