Russian president attends service led by one of his staunchest backers while Zelenskiy asserts God is on Kyiv’s side

Analysts and officials tell The Independent that the Kremlin wants a military victory to tout before its artillery advantage diminishes

China’s president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, ukraine and Taiwan continue

Victoria Shi is modelled on Rosalie Nombre, a singer and former contestant on ukraine’s version of the reality show The Bachelor

Just like the Olympic athletes, the cyberwarriors that will be crucial for the success of the Paris Games are deep into training for the big event

In the final part of our series on the plight of people with disabilities caught up in Russia’s invasion of ukraine, Bel Trew speaks to a man who had only the use of one limb, his arm, about the terrible treatment Ukrainians are subjected to in Rus ...

Analysis: Strides have been made in recent decades among the UN and humanitarian organisations to try and put protections in place, writes William Pons. But they need to be enforced and expanded so that the suffering of people with disabilities is no ...

Russians and Belarusians are participating in summer’s games as neutrals without flags, emblems or anthems

David Cameron has backed Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia using British-supplied weapons. The Foreign Secretary said it was a decision for ukraine how to use the supplied equipment and Kyiv “absolutely has the right” to strike back ...

‘It is their decision about how to use these weapons,’ foreign secretary says

Ukrainian troops are battling to build stronger defences as Russian advances plough through

ukraine’s athletes have been urged by their Olympic chiefs not to have any contact with their Russian and Belarusian counterparts at the Paris Games

ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday

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