Europe's biggest armed conflict since World War II is poised to enter a new phase.

President wrecking Russia with war, supporter appears to say in leaked phone call.

'I want to speak with him,' Ukraine president says.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of dire consequences for Ukraine if the country loses the battle of Bakhmut and says he’s ready to speak to Chinese President Xi. Video / AP

Japan's Defence Ministry had no immediate response.

Schulz was at risk of being attacked by Taliban sympathisers in jail, a magistrate ruled.

Dr Andrew Bagshaw has had a key research paper published posthumously.

Arthur ‘Joppy’ Joplin, a Kiwi who bombed Hitler’s prized battleship, dies aged 99.

Body of slain NZ soldier being escorted home by an uncle.

Ukraine govt says more than 16,000 children have been deported to Russia.

Joanne Ruscoe and Suzanne Roberts discovered they had something extraordinary in common.

1950s-era T-54s being taken from a storage depot points to depleted Russian weaponry.

Nephew of last surviving airmen at Buchenwald concentration camp is in Dannevirke.

Kiwi reportedly killed in Ukraine, the rugby world reacts to Scott Robertson’s appointment and negotiations after teachers strike in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald

Japanese PM visits Ukraine, hours after Chinese President Xi arrives in Russia.

A Russian court has frozen Volkswagen’s assets in the country.

Russian President welcomes China's plan to settle 'acute crisis' in Ukraine.

NZ may want to think about reopening its embassy in Baghdad – again.

Dannevirke's Regent will be holding a special screening of the documentary.

We are seeing these close encounters of the military, naval and aviation kind often.

Report findings indicate Twitter allowing Russia to use platform to spread misinformation.

Visit, grain deal extension come as UK says Putin likely to expand mandatory conscription.

‘It’s a weapon from the first World War being used in the third World War.’

Xi Jinping plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week in Moscow.

Sweden still out in cold, over Erdogan's soft on "terrorism" claims.

Slovakia's PM Prime Minister Eduard Heger says his govt is “on the right side of history".

Warrant is for alleged involvement in abductions of children from Ukraine.

Iraq invasion

The report comes a year after Russian airstrike on theatre in Mariupol killed hundreds.

UN trying to "clarify the circumstances" and "current location" of the nuclear material.