Daniel McLaughlin

Russia reports heavy fighting in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine

Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other’s troops of shelling evacuation areas

Flooding is expected to peak on Wednesday as Zelenskiy accuses Russia of failing to evacuate residents on left bank of Dnipro

Destruction of Kakhovka dam the ‘largest man-made environmental disaster in Europe in decades’

Kremlin denies responsibility for dam breach and accuses Ukraine of sabotage

Kyiv rejects Russian claims that it has begun a major counteroffensive in south Donetsk and suffered heavy losses

Border tensions rise amid shelling and new raid from Ukraine

White House insists it does not support Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory

Russia continues air strikes on Kyiv with Iranian explosive drones

Tens of thousands of Kyiv residents shelter in metro from drone and missile attacks

Officials say 52 of 54 Iranian-made Shahed drones were destroyed by Ukraine’s air defence units

Ukrainian forces attack Russia’s southern Belgorod region hours after blast in Krasnodar

Wagner mercenaries handing over positions in ruined Donbas city to Russian army

Yevgeny Prigozhin says Russia must live like North Korea and send elite’s children to war

Ethnic Russian guerrillas say operation continues to ‘liberate’ frontier area from Putin regime