The building in the besieged city of Mariupol was sheltering up to 1,200 people, the deputy mayor says.

The news raises questions over why senior Russian officers are getting so close to the fighting.

Two weeks since the last official death toll, funerals of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine continue.

Three full weeks into war, a theatre turned shelter is shelled and the US and Russia row.

Ukraine's leader invoked the horror of the 2001 attacks on the US as he pleaded for more military aid.

Olga Smirnova defects after saying she was "against this war with every fibre of my soul".

Weeks after President Putin ordered an invasion, the goals he set appear to have been watered down.

The country may be about to default on its debts as Western sanctions over Ukraine bite.

Villarreal score three late goals to move into the Champions League quarter-finals as Juventus go out in the last 16 for a third successive year.

Lithuania’s president says sanctions by the West don’t go far enough and that his country is ready to act.

Brittney Griner, widely considered the best female player of all time, has been detained in Russia.

Volunteers are racing medical supplies from the UK to the Ukrainian front line.

Marina Ovsyannikova's protest highlighted a growing number of journalists leaving their jobs at Kremlin-run TV channels.

Tina Wnukowska came to England with only a suitcase 10 years ago, and now plans to welcome Ukrainians.

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba says his home was burgled during his side's Champions League game against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday.

What might Putin want, to be able to come out of the war looking good in the eyes of Russia's majority?

How is the government helping Ukrainian refugees come to the UK?

Marks and Spencer, Burger King, Marriott and Accor say they cannot shut outlets due to franchise deals.

Rafal Trzaskowski tells the BBC that the population of his city has increased by 20% in two weeks.

At least 21 infants born through surrogacy are left in limbo because of the war in Ukraine.

Two Ukrainian women have kept a video diary recording their new lives while under attack from Russia.

Video shows Mari Margun reacting to an explosion in the middle of recording herself talking to the camera.

Residential apartment blocks in Kyiv have again been hit by Russian air strikes.