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We’re deep in the Ukrainian forest, hidden by a thick canopy of trees and foliage. We’ve been given rare access to one of the country’s most valuable military assets in action in this brutal war. The Ukrainian soldiers from the 93rd Brigade, who we’re with, are awaiting their orders. Kremlin hits back at rumours Vladimir

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has visited troops on the frontline in the northeastern region of Kharkiv in his first official appearance outside of Kyiv since the start of Russia’s invasion. “You risk your lives for us all and for our country,” he told the soldiers, according to the president’s office website. Mr Zelenskyy also handed

Amid claim and counter-claim, what actually happened at the Stade de France on Saturday night? UEFA and the French authorities appeared to blame Liverpool supporters for the Champions League final kicking off late. In an attempt to understand what happened on the ground, Sky News has geolocated several videos posted on social media, showing fans

Liverpool FC has called for an investigation following the violence used against its fans before the Champions League final on Saturday night. Security at the Stade de France in Paris appeared to have been overwhelmed by the size of the crowd, leaving many fans waiting outside the ground for hours, with some not being allowed

The first confirmed case of monkeypox has been identified in Ireland, health officials have said. The infection was reported in the east of the country on Friday night and the person affected was not kept in hospital. A second suspected monkeypox case is also being investigated and test results are awaited, said the Health Service

Dramatic video footage has shown the son of a Tory MP fighting in Ukraine – including an attack on a Russian troop carrier and the rescue of a wounded comrade. Ben Grant is heard screaming “We’ve got to move now or we’re gonna die!” as he and his band of foreign fighters help drag one

The mass graves in the city of Lysychansk are an indication of the slaughter that’s gone on in the Donbas. And the long freshly-dug, empty trenches are testament to where locals fear the war is headed in eastern Ukraine – and what terrors are yet to come. The deaths are mounting up, the Russian troops

Shelling has intensified in the city of Severodonetsk – one of the few parts of the Luhansk region in Donbas that is still under Ukrainian government control. Russian forces are attacking from three sides in an effort to encircle the city and neighbouring Lysychansk, knowing that if they fall, nearly all of Luhansk will be

The president of the World Bank has warned that the war in Ukraine could spark a global recession. David Malpass pointed to the conflict’s role in pushing up food and energy prices. He said Germany’s economy, the world’s fourth largest, has already slowed significantly due to higher energy prices. The war has also led to

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will meet armed forces personnel in Bosnia and Herzegovina to re-affirm the UK’s commitment to peace and stability in the western Balkans. Ms Truss will warn against “appeasement” of Vladimir Putin in the face of malign Russian influence in the region as the war with Ukraine continues. She will use a

Kate Moss has said Johnny Depp “never” pushed her down any stairs, contrary to rumours discussed by Amber Heard during the US defamation trial. The British supermodel said the actor, who she was in a relationship from 1994 to 1998, had not “pushed, kicked or threw me” down any stairs while they were together. She

Seventy-five people are missing after a crowded boat of migrants sank off Tunisia, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM said 24 people had been rescued from the boat, which left the beaches of Zawara in northern Libya and sank off the coast of Sfax. A Tunisian security official told Reuters news

The savage heatwave that has scorched India and Pakistan in recent months was made more likely by climate change and is a harbinger of the region’s future, scientists have said in a new study. Parts of the region have long suffered gruelling summers, but this year temperatures even in parts of northern India soared to

Russia’s blockade of Ukraine will lead to worsening starvation, famine and instability around the world if it cannot be lifted, the World Food Programme has said. The warning came as Sky News gained rare access to Odesa port on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. The port should be busy exporting tens of thousands of tonnes of

A Russian soldier who pleaded guilty to murdering an unarmed 62-year-old civilian has been sentenced to life in prison in the first war crimes trial of the conflict. Sergeant Vadim Shishimarin was accused of shooting an unarmed resident through an open car window in the village of Chupakhivka. The 21-year-old Russian tank commander pleaded guilty

Startling new figures from the UN show the war in Ukraine has displaced more than eight million people. And they reveal that more than six million refugee movements from Ukraine have been registered. According to new data from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations

Monkeypox is something “everybody should be concerned about” and the US is looking into what kind of treatments and vaccines are available, President Joe Biden has said. The World Health Organisation has identified about 80 monkeypox cases globally, and roughly 50 more suspected cases. Cases of the smallpox-related disease have previously been seen only among

Carpet bombing is indiscriminate – devastatingly destructive and utterly random. But if you’re an advancing army, it’s a deadly and effective tactic, and it’s being used mercilessly against the townspeople of Soledar. The town in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas has seen its topography alter dramatically in the last 72 hours as the Russians intensify their assault

Australia’s opposition Labor Party has won power for the first time since 2007, after Scott Morrison conceded defeat of the ruling conservatives. The party’s leader, Anthony Albanese, is to become prime minister after Mr Morrison’s conservative Liberal Party failed to win the minimum 76 seats needed for a majority in the 151-seat parliament. Labor has

The Donbas is feeling the brunt of the recent Russian military failures. The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, says the twin areas of Luhansk and Donetsk in eastern Ukraine are being “turned into hell”. He’s right. They are. The towns and cities here are being pummelled; homes and businesses are being smashed by this war. Ukraine

Ukrainian troops, thought to be the last fighting Russian forces in Mariupol, have been told to stop the defence of the city. Reuters news agency reported the Azov regiment had been ordered only to “save lives of soldiers” in the port – a key military objective for Vladimir Putin, which has been under bombardment for

The road to Severodonetsk in Ukraine has to be negotiated at a furious pace. The route incorporates a vast open stretch of land leaving vehicles exposed and vulnerable to attack. The journey is pitted with risks as the Russians try to cut off this, the only route into the city and the one remaining pocket

A captured volunteer medic’s bodycam footage shows the horrors taking place in the ruined city of Mariupol after it was smuggled out in a tampon. Yuliia Paievska is referred to as Taira in Ukraine, a moniker from the nickname she chose in the World Of Warcraft video game. Using a body camera, the 53-year-old recorded

Early in the invasion, Russia’s 59th tank regiment dug in east of Kharkiv. Near the treeline on raised ground, they looked down on a valley of villages. From there, Ukrainians say the tanks’ guns attacked civilian vehicles and homes below. A reckoning followed as Ukrainian forces comprehensively destroyed the Russian tanks and armoured vehicles. Sky

Russia has started moving an armoured fighting vehicle nicknamed the “Terminator” around a Ukrainian city which shows their “determination” to capture the area, a military expert has told Sky News. Justin Crump, a veteran British army tank commander, said Russia was “quite proud” of the vehicle, which is used to support other tanks and “suppress”

Air, chemical and water pollution accounted for one in six deaths in 2019, a study has found. Pollution was responsible for nine million deaths worldwide in 2019, according to the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health – a figure unchanged since 2015. More more than 90% of pollution-related deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries,

The remains of an American teenager have been found more than a decade after she went missing on holiday – and a convicted sex offender has been charged with her murder. The body of Brittanee Drexel, who went missing in 2009 at the age of 17, was found last week less than an hour’s drive

More than 200 Ukrainian soldiers are being evacuated from Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol after weeks of resistance against the Russian invasion. Some 53 troops are being taken to hospital in the Russian-controlled town of Novoazovsk, about 30 miles to the east, according to Ukraine’s deputy defence minister Hanna Malyar. Another 211

A retired British geologist who faces the death penalty over accusations he smuggled artefacts out of Iraq has told a court he had no idea he was breaking the law. Jim Fitton, 66, collected 12 stones and shards of broken pottery as souvenirs while visiting a site in Eridu in the country’s southeast as part

Ukraine can win the war against Russia, NATO’s secretary general has said, insisting that Russia’s invasion is “not going as Moscow had planned”. Jens Stoltenberg was speaking on Sunday to a meeting of NATO member countries, although he addressed them via video as he was recovering from COVID-19. He said: “Russia’s war in Ukraine is

Pointing to a grubby, grey sofa in the corner of a small room in her neighbour’s house, the Ukrainian mother said that was where a teenage Russian soldier raped her. It happened during an evening of terror, cruelty and murder in a rural village outside Kyiv. Vika, 42, said she decided to speak about the

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russia looks “insane” for still trying to snatch victory in the Donbas region. Mr Zelenskyy said he was “grateful to each and everyone” still defending the Donbas and other eastern and southern regions, adding Ukraine was forcing Russian occupants to leave Ukrainian land “step by step”. On Saturday,

The West has declared a “total hybrid war” against Russia and it is hard to predict how long it will last, Moscow’s foreign minister has said. Sergei Lavrov said the consequences of the war in Ukraine will be felt around the world. But speaking about sanctions on Russia, he warned: “Western politicians should understand their