Lindsey Hilsum
This war is damaging lives across Ukraine, far from the cities that usually feature in news reports. Even if a ceasefire comes soon, it will be years before normality returns to peoples’ lives.
The UK is said to be pressing for the closure of the SWIFT bank-clearance service, which would be a big move.
Lindsey Hilsum
President Putin seems confident as he says one thing and does another – denying Russian soldiers have crossed the border despite overwhelming evidence is classic Soviet doublespeak.
Alex Thomson
The chimneys of Mariupol – where one the the biggest integrated steelworks in the world dominates the city skyline outside for miles – the new strategic significance in Ukraine.
Nato releases satellite imagery which it says shows well over 1,000 Russian combat soldiers operating inside Ukraine, armed with sophisticated weaponry.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promises to work on an urgent ceasefire plan with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to defuse the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Passengers on Malaysia Airlines flights have been busy posting photos on Twitter of deserted cabins and rows and rows of empty seats.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko holds talks with his Russia counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at a summit in Minsk, capital of Belarus, as tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine.
Around 100 captured Ukrainian troops are paraded through Donetsk by pro-Russian separatists. The episode – which may breach the Geneva Convention – came as Ukraine celebrated its independence day.
Some 100 trucks from a Russian aid convoy which crossed into Ukraine on Friday have crossed back into Russia. The incursion had been described as a “direct invasion” by Kiev.
Four protesters are arrested after a Ukrainian flag appears on a famous Russian landmark in Moscow and a golden Soviet star is painted blue.
Russia is sending 280 aid vehicles to eastern Ukraine bearing food, generators and medicine to help the hundreds of thousands pro-Russian citizens – but is there a more sinister motive?
Quizzed about his charity tennis match with the wife of a former Putin minister, Boris Johnson tells Channel 4 News: “I’ll play tennis any time – but it doesn’t seem to be imminent.”
The Netherlands, Australia and Malaysia rule out sending an international armed mission to secure the site in Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 crashed, the Dutch prime minister says.
How should Britain respond to growing calls to punish Russia’s oligarchs in wake of the shooting down of MH17?