Volodymyr Zelenskiy: Last News

The final of the Ukrainian version of The Voice on Sunday took place in a Kyiv subway station deep underground that is also used as a bomb shelter.

Ukraine has continued to grind on.After Putin's forces failed to take the capital early on in the invasion, which began in March, Russia is now focused on a slow campaign to conquer the east of the country.During this time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has continued to call for aid from foreign countries, even making an appearance at Glastonbury Festival last month. One thing above all else he has asked for is weapons and artillery, namely the rocket system HIMARS.READ NEXT: You can now send Snapchats without a phone as app launches 'amazing' web versionA truck with a missile launcher on the back of it, HIMARS can fire up to six guided rockets which have a high degree of precision, enabling Ukraine to make some effective targeted strikes at a range of about 50 miles.This keeps it out of range of Russian artillery, meaning Ukraine has been able to slow down Russia's advance despite being outnumbered and outgunned.

Russian missile struck a multi-story apartment building in the Odesa region of Ukraine, killing at least 10 people, a local official said. A sports centre was also hit in the Belgorod-Dniester region with the missiles fired by Russian aircraft coming from the direction of the Black Sea.Emergency services rushed to the nine floor apartment block which was on fire and attempts were made to rescue people from the flames."The number of dead as a result of a strike on a multi-story apartment building has now risen to 10," Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odesa regional administration said on his Telegram channel.Earlier reports said six people had died in the night-time incident, including three children.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentU.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty revealed on Friday that its journalist and news programming producer Vera Gyrych has been killed in a Russian air strike on Kyiv.“Radio Liberty journalist and producer Vera Gyrych died as a result of a Russian missile hitting the house where she lived in Kyiv. The shelling took place on 28 April,” reads a statement issued by the org, a private non-profit alternative news source funded by the U.S.

Vladimir Putin is not officially on the list. Iryna Venediktova, a prosecutor, told Sky News that Putin was the “main war criminal of the 21st century” as she provided details of the number of bodies recovered from the region following Russia's humiliating retreat from the area.

Ukraine hospital shelled by Vladimir Putin's Russia.

Russia has branded the Ukrainian claims that it carried out the horrifying bombing of a children's hospital in Mariupol as "fake news", stating that the building was no longer a maternity hospital and that it had long been taken over by armed forces.

Vladimir Putin has promised to consider ending his brutal bombing campaign on Ukrainian civilians and the areas they live in as peace talks between the two countries continue in Belarus.This comes after the Russian President spoke in length with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Monday, February 28.According to a statement from the French government, Macron asked Putin to halt all strikes and attacks against civilians and places of residences, preserve civil infrastructure and secure main roads.Putin confirmed his willingness to commit to those requests, the French statement said.However a Kremlin statement about the same telephone call says that Putin told Macron: "A settlement is possible only if Russia's legitimate security interests are taken into account – including a recognition of Russia's sovereignty over Crimea and a resolution of the objectives of demilitarisation and denazification of the Ukrainian state and ensuring it has a neutral status".Ahead of the talks, Ukraine said it wanted a ceasefire and Russian withdrawal, while the Kremlin said it would not announce its position.Russia's negotiators have talked of striking a deal that's in the interests of both sides.This news comes as dozens of people were killed by Russian rocket attacks in Kharkiv earlier on Monday.The Ukrainian interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said Kharkiv had been “massively fired on”, leaving “dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded”.To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.With fighting continuing around several cities and the Russian rouble falling drastically, the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Russian troops to abandon their weapons and leave the

Russia appears to be looking to hold peace talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy following Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering an invasion on Thursday.The leader of Ukraine has said his country is ready for peace talks with Russia, but will not conduct these in Belarus, which was an invasion staging ground.Ukrainian forces are believed to have held off Russian troops advancing on the capital of Kyiv as Russian forces attacked oil and gas facilities in Ukraine overnight, causing huge explosions.Russian missiles targeted an oil terminal in Vasylkiv, southwest of Kyiv, according to the town's mayor.The results of the blasts reportedly sent huge flames and billowing black smoke into the sky as mayor Natalia Balasinovich said: "The enemy wants to destroy everything."Heavy fighting has also been reported in Kharkiv, where Russia blew up a natural gas pipeline, a Ukrainian state agency said.Russian troops were later seen entered Kharkiv, Ukraine's interior ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko said on Telegram.These videos, posted by him and a state agency, showed several military vehicles moving on a street and in a separate video, a burning tank.Western allies have prepared new sanctions, including banishing key Russia banks from the main global payments system.Prime Minister Boris Johnson has praised Ukrainians for “fighting heroically” as allies unveiled new measures to hit Russia’s financial system.Mr Johnson also said the West is “tightening the economic ligature” around Russia, with Britain, the US, Canada and the European Union together announcing that selected Russian banks would be excluded from the Swift global payments system.The Prime Minister added: “Let’s be in no doubt, things are not going all

Vladimir Putin will use deadly thermobaric weapons to take Kyiv after the Ukrainian military stopped his first-wave blitzkrieg from taking the capital.Russia invaded Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday morning, sparking a wave of death and destruction across the country.

As Russia continues its conflict in Ukraine, the military assault has already resulted in a shocking number of deaths.

Prince William, 39, made an unpublicized stop at the London building for MI6 on Wednesday February 23, only hours before Russian forces began their attack on Ukraine, according to The Times. There aren’t many details about the Duke of Cambridge’s meeting with the intelligence agency, but he went as his grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, 95, and dad Prince Charles, 73, are on the mend after testing positive for COVID-19.

British nationals in Ukraine have been warned of the ‘real risk to life’ as the Foreign Office urged them to flee the country following the Russian invasion earlier this morning.

continue to grow. The Ukrainian military marked its national army day today with a display of US armoured vehicles and patrol boats, reports Reuters.

Joaquin Phoenix was at the heart of a hostage situation in Ukraine today, Deadline reports.

It was a good thing he was a film fan. A hostage stand-off in Ukraine has ended peacefully after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to the hostage-taker's demand to publicly endorse an obscure documentary narrated by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix.

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherUkraine’s President managed to win the freedom for 13 people on a hijacked bus by sharing a video on Facebook where he urged people to watch a vegan documentary.A 10-minute conversation between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian-born convict Maxim Krovishey, 44, resulted in the nation’s leader urging people to watch the 2005 film Earthlings.Once the hostages were freed, Mr Zelenskiy deleted the six-second clip that had been widely shared on the social media platform.The terrifying incident happened when Krovishey allegedly hurled a grenade out of a vehicle and twice shot at police during a 12-hour standout after he stormed the bus in the city of Lutsk,

Andreas Wiseman International EditorThirteen hostages in Ukraine have been released unharmed after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to the kidnapper’s demand that he recommend an animal rights documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.The hostage-taker was armed with guns and a grenade when he took over a bus, sparking a 12-hour standoff with police.According to local reports, the state security service identified him as 44-year-old Maksym Kryvosh, an animal rights activist with a criminal record for gun possession.In a bizarre twist, one of his demands was that Zelenskiy promote 2005 documentary Earthlings, a critique of mankind’s use of animals as pets, food, clothing, entertainment and for scientific research.