By BBC Panorama Reporting team Russia-Ukraine war A BBC investigation has uncovered new evidence about the corrupt deals that made Roman Abramovich’s fortune. The Chelsea owner made billions after buying an oil company from the Russian government in a rigged auction in 1995. Mr Abramovich paid around $250m (£190m) for Sibneft, before selling it […]
By Laurence Peter BBC News Russia-Ukraine war The Russian bombardment of some places in Ukraine is so intense that towns and cities are being forced to unceremoniously bury dozens of civilian victims in mass graves. Nowhere is this grim reality of war more apparent than in Mariupol, a key port city devastated by constant shelling, […]
Russia-Ukraine war A US journalist working in Ukraine has been shot dead in the town of Irpin, outside Kyiv, police say. Brent Renaud, 50, was a journalist and filmmaker who had previously worked for the New York Times. Kyiv’s police chief Andriy Nebytov said he had been targeted by Russian soldiers. Two other journalists […]
Russia-Ukraine war Ukraine’s government has accused the Russian military of abducting another mayor in an area that it has captured. Yevhen Matveyev was seized in the southern town of Dniprorudne, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted, accusing Russia of “terror” tactics. Earlier, Russia installed a new mayor in Melitopol, after allegedly abducting the city’s previous […]
By Hugo Bachega BBC News, Yavoriv, Ukraine Russia-Ukraine war Witnesses to a deadly Russian attack on a Ukrainian military base have told how “the sky turned red” as missiles struck the site near the Polish border. At least 35 people died in the strike on the Yavoriv training base, near a major crossing point […]
Russia-Ukraine war Residents in the Ukrainian city of Melitopol have come out to protest against the alleged abduction of the mayor by Russian forces. Ukrainian officials have posted video saying it shows Ivan Fedorov being led away blindfolded on Friday. In a message, President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Russians of “moving to a new stage of […]
Russia-Ukraine war Fresh attempts to evacuate civilians from cities under siege in Ukraine are being complicated by constant Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials say. Humanitarian corridors are being set up from Mariupol, Sumy and towns and villages outside the capital Kyiv. But Ukraine officials accused Russian forces of firing on a convoy of women and […]
By Jeremy Bowen BBC News, Kyiv Russia-Ukraine war When the Russian offensive started, as sirens sounded in Kyiv for the first time, some people here feared that the city might fall by the afternoon. Reports were coming in of a long convoy of armour and heavy weapons pushing down from the north-west. Military analysts had […]
By Andrew Harding BBC News, Mykolaiv Russia-Ukraine war The boom of artillery, muffled by heavy snowfall, echoes across the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, triggering a series of air raid sirens. In the faded grandeur of a long-abandoned club for navy officers, 29-year-old Anastasia Aleksieieva is gathering food supplies, medicines and even home-made steel […]
Russia-Ukraine war The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine are holding talks in Turkey, as Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbour enters its third week. Ukraine’s Dmytro Kuleba said ahead of the face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov that his expectations were “limited”. It comes after Ukraine accused Russia of bombing a children’s […]
