A criminal gang has been arrested in Russia for using homeless people to steal their payments, authorities have said.

Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggests Moscow would walk away from proposal that differs substantially from Alaska talks

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

Ukraine hopes to capitalize on Pope Leo’s calls for peace to coax the Vatican into helping secure the release of children and other prisoners held by Russia.

Ukraine said it had successfully struck targets in Russia using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, ending a months-long absence of the powerful weapon from the battlefield. In a statement shared on Facebook, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine called it "an iconic event that emphasizes Ukraine's unwavering devotion to its sovereignty."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visit Turkey this week to revive talks on ending Russia's invasion, which began nearly four years ago.

An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday.

BBC Verify has been gathering and checking material posted online from Kyiv after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight Russian strikes had killed at least six people Good morning from the BBC’s specialists in video verification,