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Russia is scrambling to pull its military personnel and citizens out of the city of Kherson ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukrainian father Dmytro Bahnenko reflects on the months he and his family lived there under occupation and secretly filmed for BBC Eye at great personal risk. Dmytro, whose day job had been as a local reporter, never thought he'd be filming the invasion of his home city. Along with his wife Lidia, Dmytro struggles to shelter their five-year-old daughter Ksusha from the war as she increasingly senses the danger around her. Kherson was the first major city to fall to Russian forces when they invaded Ukraine in February and he began filming the family's lives when Russian soldiers first marched past their window on 1 March.

In #Ukraine's southern Kherson region, Ukrainian troops are making progress and the Russians fear a fresh rout. Behind the frontline, another force is at work alongside the Ukrainian army: the partisans. These #resistance fighters are able to strike behind enemy lines and provide valuable #intelligence to Ukrainian forces. Our reporter Gwendoline Debono went to meet some of the members of this shadow army, who are relentlessly hunted down by Russian troops.

President Vladimir Putin introduced martial law on Wednesday in four Ukrainian regions he says Russia has annexed as some residents of the occupied city of Kherson left by boat following warnings of a looming assault.

The battle for Ukraine's southern region of Kherson is "the most important strategic objective of all of the offensives, which the Ukrainians have launched since July this year", says military analyst Michael Clarke.

President Putin is tightening his grip on Ukrainian territory, which Russia partially controls, as Ukraine continues to take back more ground on the battlefield. Despite pressure growing on the Russian leader, he is showing no signs of de-escalation as he has announced that martial law will be enforced in the four areas of Ukraine occupied by Russia, which Moscow claims it has annexed. Meanwhile, a village in recently liberated eastern Ukraine is now on the front line. Fighting, on the front line near the city of Lyman in eastern Ukraine, involves not only artillery strikes but also close-quarters combat, as the BBC's Jonathan Beale finds out.

Soldiers with Ukraine's 30th Mechanized Brigade say they have been hit from all sides around the key Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Russian forces have been making slow but steady progress in the area. RFE/RL's Maryan Kushnir was with the Ukrainian troops and has this report.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is struggling to defend from Ukrainian advances.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says a Russian fighter jet accidentally fired a missile near a RAF aircraft which was patrolling over the Black Sea. Russia said the incident was a "technical malfunction" and Britain did not see it as "deliberate escalation". The incident on 29 September happened while the British plane was on a routine patrol.

MOMENT Russian kamikaze drones destroy Ukrainian weapons, Howitzers, radar systems and military vehicles. According to footage from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), the Russian armed forces took out a number of Ukrainian targets using the kamikaze drones.

Russian forces are continuing to advance on the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, despite setbacks elsewhere. British military intelligence reports that Russian forces – led by the private military company, Wagner Group - have achieved some localised gains in the Donbas. It is one of the few places where Russia is advancing, as Ukraine has made gains in the east and south.

he defence ministry in Minsk on Sunday (October 16) said just under 9,000 Russian troops would be stationed in Belarus as part of a "regional grouping" of forces to protect its borders. "The first troop trains with Russian servicemen who are part of the (regional grouping) began to arrive in Belarus," Valeriy Revenko, head of the defence ministry's international military cooperation department, wrote on Twitter. "The relocation will take several days.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces were still holding the strategic eastern town of Bakhmut despite repeated Russian attacks while the situation in the larger Donbas region remained tenuous. Read FRANCE 24’s liveblog to catch up on the day's events as they unfold.

Young Ukrainians from Kyiv are organising 'Repair Together' weekends to help poor villages devastated by Russian occupation by cleaning up and rebuilding homes for free. Tetiana Burianova was traveling in Peru when war broke out, and rushed back to Ukraine to help out in any way she could. With her friends, she began collecting donations and organising repair events that now attract hundreds of young people from cities each weekend. The Guardian's Christopher Cherry reports from a liberated village where he meets locals finding it impossible to forgive a brutal occupation, and volunteers determined to build a better Ukraine amid the ruin.

An Iranian police officer has been filmed sexually assaulting a female protester. The incident happened in Tehran as women were protesting over the death of Mahsa Amini - she died in custody after being arrested for not wearing a hijab. The country has been rocked by several days of protests against the regime and the assault on the demonstrator has only heightened tensions.

After exclusive CNN reporting that SpaceX will no longer fund critical satellite services in Ukraine, Elon Musk says his company will "just keep funding Ukraine govt for fre

UKRAINIAN president Zelesky thanked soldiers and medical staff at the hospital for their service for the country and gave military awards to patients and their carers at the hospital. The hospital provides specialized care to released POWs, as well as psychological rehabilitation for soldiers suffering from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). Earlier on Friday, Zelensky also marked Ukraine's Defenders Day holiday by laying a wreath in tribute to the fallen soldiers at St Michael's Cathedral and promising victory over Russia and freedom for Ukraine. The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world

In a video address delivered on hills outside the capital Kyiv, Zelenskyy thanked Ukraine's armed forces for defending their country. He said everything that had been taken away from Ukraine would be returned, and no soldier left in captivity.

This footage reportedly shows Russia claims that it has destroyed Ukrainian tanks and equipment with kamikaze drones. The footage released by the Russian Ministry of Defence allegedly shows kamikaze drones swooping in and striking multiple targets including tanks, weapons and vehicles.

Liubov Palii was sitting at her computer when the lights went off in her one-bedroom apartment after Russian strikes pummeled Ukraine's energy network. She started to play with her four-month-old baby boy, Vova, by the light of her mobile phone.

There are reports that the city of Dehdasht, Iran, is "under the control" of protesters - as the uprise against the regime continues.

As the weather changes in Ukraine and the battle for Kherson continues, soldiers show CNN's Nick Paton Walsh how they plan to use bunkers and Elon Musk's satellite internet to help map out Russian forces

Remarks from Russian president Vladimir Putin suggest the Kremlin is facing few good options in winning or winding down its brutal war in Ukraine. "There is no need for massive strikes. At least for the moment, for now. As for the future - we'll see." Putin said he saw no need for massive new strikes that hammered Ukrainian power plants and infrastructure and killed dozens of civilians this week. The Sun newspaper brings you the latest breaking news videos and explainers from the UK and around the world

Desperate to avoid a military call-up to fight in Ukraine, more than 20 Russians have reportedly sailed in yachts down the North Pacific coast to South Korea, but most were refused entry, a South Korean lawmaker said on Wednesday.

An innocent man was killed after he was carjacked and dragged by his own vehicle for 2 miles by a suspect who was wanted for murder.