The foreign secretary called the conflict ‘the challenge of our generation’ after making second trip to Kyiv to meet Zelenskiy

£5.5bn loss in 2023 comes after gas sales more than halved following Russia’s invasion of ukraine

Russia has amassed tens of thousands of soldiers along sectors of the eastern frontline in ukraine, according to seniro Ukrainian military officials

In a new four-article series, The Independent reveals the details of Bel Trew’s special investigation into the desperate plight of hundreds – potentially thousands – of people with disabilities caught up in Putin’s invasion of ukraine. The mo ...

A new special investigation unveils how Russia is feared to have transferred hundreds if not thousands of people with disabilities

Comment: Reporting on the kidnapping and abuse of the most vulnerable in Ukrainian society makes one thing clear, writes Bel Trew: in war people with disabilities are the last to be remembered and the first to be left behind

Anna, 36, and Les, 32, met in Kyiv in 2016. Now based in Vienna, they hope to return to ukraine

Large fire and billowing smoke engulfs buildings in the latest attack on the port city

Washington sanctions nearly 300 companies and individuals from China, Russia, Singapore, UAE and other countries

Kyiv Independent’s Olga Rudenko is set on telling the truth in wartime, despite clumsy instances of state harassment

Nearly 300 entities targeted in US sanctions to ‘further disrupt and degrade Russia’s war efforts’; Russians using banned chemical weapons on battlefield, says state department. What we know on day 799

Months of relentless Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern ukraine. New drone footage shows the remains of the community Chasiv Yar — set amid green fields and woodland - left in rubble. The massive destruction is r ...

Moscow says attack, which has yet to be independently verified, was carried out using missiles and artillery

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley has warned anyone displaying a swastika at a Palestine protest will be arrested. Sir Mark issued the warning when he appeared on LBC on Wednesday (1 May) and stated: “Displaying a swastika is an offence and you are ...

ukraine’s second-largest city has suffered ‘extensive damage’ to civilian infrastructure and a sharp increase in casualties; woman, 98, walks out of besieged city on her own. What we know on day 798

Popular landmark in port city of Odesa houses a private law academy

‘I survived that war (World War Two), and I am surviving this war’, Lidia Stepanivna said after being rescued by police

Flames engulf a ukraine building, known locally as “Harry Potter castle” after a deadly Russian missile attack on Monday night (29 April). Five people have been killed and another 23 injured after a Russian attack on ukraine’s southern ...

Russia will sink Britain under a nuclear tidal wave, if Nato sends troops into ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s top propagandist has vowed. Dmitry Kiselyov also warned the US will be reduced to radioactive ash as he said any bid by the West to put boots o ...

Four-year-old child and pregnant woman among those in a serious condition after strike on seafront park in Black Sea port city