Russia has promised another temporary ceasefire to allow civilians to escape from besieged cities - despite failing to honour similar previous pledges.

The Pentagon has said Poland's offer to give all of its MIG-29 fighter jets to the US so they can be passed to Ukraine is not "tenable".

A British man who volunteered to join Ukraine's military fight against Russia says he was turned down after being told he would be "a liability".

Grant Shapps has said the UK is "not inadvertently doing something which escalates this war in a way that would be unacceptable to the entire world" as he seemingly confirmed a deal with Poland to supply fighter jets to Ukraine is off.

A former Miss Ukraine has described how she fled Kyiv with her seven-year-old son after waking up to the sound of air raid sirens and explosions on the first day of Russia's invasion.

A 15-year-old girl has been sentenced to nine years in prison for manslaughter after stabbing a "peaceful and caring" musician to death in West Sussex.

Ukraine has fallen into darkness, as these satellite images of Europe lit-up at night show.

Mothercare, the retailer of products for young children and their parents, has joined the list of multi-national companies halting business in Russia and warned it will be taking a big financial hit in the process.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance, which was trapped in sea ice before sinking in 1915, has been found off the coast of Antarctica in what has been called a "milestone of polar history".