Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of attacking the bridge to Crimea, saying it was an "act of terrorism".

The BBC's defence correspondent meets the people of a retaken town - and the soldiers who freed it.

Ex-Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas deletes a Tweet that announced he was gay - saying his account was hacked.

Officials think a wave from a nearby tug boat turned over the barge in a river in Gdansk.

A woman and her teenage son and a 14-year-old girl also died in the petrol station explosion.

Police say it took officers based in the UK and Spain more than a year to identify the ringleaders.

Russia has blamed a truck bomb - but examination of the footage seems to contradict that.

Zaporizhzhia is controlled by Ukraine but is in a region illegally annexed by Russia.

The sight of the crippled bridge is a morale boost - but fear remains, writes the BBC's Paul Adams.

Ukraine's president tells the BBC "they are not ready to do it... But they begin to communicate".

Gifts for Russia's embattled president include a tractor from Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko.

Joe Biden says President Putin was "not joking" when he spoke of using tactical nuclear weapons.

A punitive law has led to the mass exodus of journalists from Russia.

At least seven dead after rocket strikes in Zaporizhzhia and two Russians sail to the US.

Hundreds of thousands of men have fled Russia so they will not be conscripted to fight in Ukraine.

Ukraine continues to take back territory from Russia even as Moscow formalises taking over four regions.

Forest fires ignited by Russian shelling have devastated Ukraine's Drevlyansky reserve.

The jailed activist has spent decades fighting Aleksander Lukashenko's authoritarian rule in Belarus.

While Russia's president annexes large areas of Ukraine, the truth on the ground looks very different.

As part of a new series, we explore whether Norway has a solution for the US and its ageing leaders.

As Vladimir Putin turns 70, we look back at a series of turning points that helped shape his worldview.

The BBC's Orla Guerin finds desolate scenes in Lyman, a town Ukraine recaptured from Russia.

Paris's relative absence in its supply of weapons to Ukraine leaves eastern European countries wary.

It is the first war where commercial space capabilities have played a significant role, a US general says.

Could the British Royal Family have its own "slimming down" in the footsteps of Denmark's queen?

Denmark and Greenland agree to investigate traumatising birth control procedures on Inuit Greenlanders.

Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.

Hugo Bachega delivers a news report as several explosions happen in the centre of Kyiv.

Residential buildings are left in total ruin after overnight missile strikes on Zaporizhzhia.

A thick, dark cloud of smoke is seen after a blast on the peninsula's only land link to Russia.

Ukraine's president says Vladimir Putin is beginning to talk to his people about using a nuclear weapon.

Oleksandra Romantsova, from the Center for Civil Liberties, responds emotionally upon learning of the award.