'Constantly depressing': Ukrainian town watches war close in
Even the sudden crackling of a plastic water bottle puts residents on edge.
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'Danger is serious': Top Russian diplomat warns Ukraine against provoking WWIII
Moscow unleashed attacks against rail and fuel installations far from the front lines.
A family of six walks for days to escape Mariupol. This is their story
New York Times: Mariupol has been devastated by fighting.
Fuel and rail facilities struck by missiles in fresh Russian attacks
Crucial infrastructure far from the eastern frontline hit by airstrikes.
Australia should be prepared for war, says Peter Dutton
Australian politician ups his war rhetoric after the PM issues a blunt warning.
The former Chancellor who became Putin's man in Germany
New York Times: Gerhard Schröder has become a pariah.
Watch: 'We want to return alive' - haunting video of children under siege in Mariupol steelworks
Hundreds of women and children are hiding in sprawling Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
Russians try to storm Mariupol plant, strike Odesa
Russia has claimed control of several villages elsewhere in the eastern Donbas region.
'Catastrophic': Russia's new global plan
There's one thing Russia has that the world needs – and Putin knows it.
Russia-Ukraine War: 'One minute from death', lucky ones escape Mariupol
Only a fraction of the residents who want to leave Mariupol are able to.
US to send Ukraine top-secret 'ghost drones' for battle
The phoenix is described as a 'one-way' kamikaze that 'delivers a punch'.
French accuse Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali
Footage shows Russian mercenaries burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali.
Putin's 'lover' reappears with a 'new look'
Putin's alleged mistress has been spotted in Moscow following reports she was in hiding.
'Fighting, shelling, bombing do not stop': Russia moves troops to new battleground
Russia is moving its elite troops to a new location in Ukraine, preparing a major assault.
World representatives in NZ: 'Putin Chose War. We Stand United with Ukraine'
Ambassadors and high commissioners resident in NZ on the pain and suffering in Ukraine.
'Brutal onslaught': NZ-based ambassadors in unprecedented attack on Russia over Ukraine war
Signatories mainly from Nato nations and allies of the United States.
Brutal new phase: Putin's plan after declaring victory
The grim next step of Putin's plan in the Ukraine war has been revealed.
Russia-Ukraine war: Possible mass graves near Mariupol shown in satellite images
Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of burying up to 9000 civilians to conceal slaughter.
Putin claims Mariupol, last defenders holed up in steel plant
Russia takes over smoking ruins of the city, and orders troops to seal off Azovstal works.
Putin orders troops not to storm Mariupol hideout; busloads of civilians escape
Forces told instead to block stronghold "so that not even a fly comes through".
Last pocket of resistance: Russians rain bombs on Mariupol defenders' steel plant stronghold
Another attempt to evacuate civilians trapped in the pulverised port city fails.
When war imitates art: rediscovering Red Dawn, the 1984 movie inspiring Ukrainian fighters
"Wolverines" has appeared on vehicles taken out by Ukrainians in reference to the film.
Satan II- 'Deadliest weapon ever': Putin to test nuclear missile
200-tonne intercontinental ballistic missile was 'a present to Nato' - Putin.
He was a penniless donor to the far right. He was also a Russian spy
New York Times: "I told Moscow you are such a good boy," Bohus Garbar's handler says.
'Days or hours left': Russia tightens the noose in Mariupol
The last Ukrainian stronghold in Mariupol expects to fall within a few days now.
Chernobyl seizure a nuclear risk 'nightmare'
Russian soldiers left explosives buried in the contaminated soil.
Wimbledon bans players from Russia, Belarus over Ukraine war
Players from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to play at Wimbledon this year.
Waiwera's derelict and abandoned hot pools: New hope for a thriving future
Pools and a bottling plant were once owned by Russian Mikhail Khimich, who has died.
Despair in Mariupol's last stronghold: 'They're bombing us with everything'
New York Times: A group of Ukrainian soldiers issued a message of despair.
How Russia media uses Fox News to make its case
New York Times: The conservative network has appeared hundreds of times in Russian media.
'Russia lies in the most absurd and grotesque ways': Bellingcat founder
"Information is a battleground": The digital investigators gathering war crimes evidence.
Russia pours in more troops and presses attack in the east
Russia has ratcheted up its battle for control of Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland.
'He did not look like a maniac': Putin ally, wife and daughter all shot dead
Three found dead in $3.8 million Moscow apartment by an adult daughter.
'New phase of war': Russia ratchets up battle for east Ukraine
Vladimir Putin attempts to take eastern Donbas region and slice Ukraine in two.