It's a world record. No leader before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has managed to hold an address every single day for a straight year.

In the end, it was a war that began some 5,800 kilometres away a year ago that laid bare the longstanding weaknesses of the Bangladesh economy.

Ukraine “will prevail” over invading Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday, a day before the first anniversary of Moscow’s assault on his country.

China pledged to deepen cooperation with Russia yesterday as US President Joe Biden met leaders of Nato’s eastern flank - highlighting geopolitical tensions ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

US President Joe Biden yesterday said Ukraine would “never be a victory for Russia”, hours after President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in a nuclear arms treaty with Washington accusing the West of trying to destroy Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, announcing new strategic systems had been put on combat duty and warning that Moscow could resume nuclear tests

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday blamed the West for the escalation of the Ukraine conflict, after Kyiv's allies promised to send new weapons to Ukraine.

Biden, in his trademark aviator sunglasses, and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in green battle fatigues, walked side-by-side to a gold-domed cathedral in Kyiv on a bright winter Monday morning pierced by the sound of air raid sirens

US President Joe Biden made an unannounced visit to Kyiv yesterday, and said President Vladimir Putin was “dead wrong” in his plans for the offensive in Ukraine.

Oleksandr Shamshur, 41, is among tens of thousands of volunteers helping defend the skies over Ukraine against Russian attacks

Russia battered Ukraine with multiple missile strikes yesterday as its troops sought to advance in the east

President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday it was “obvious” Ukraine would not be the last stop of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and that it was vital the West does not delay deliveries of weapons to help repel Russian forces.

Russia said yesterday it had broken through two fortified Ukrainian defence lines on the eastern front, as Kyiv described conditions there as difficult and Western allies announced more military aid, including increased supplies of artillery rounds.

President Joe Biden will mark this month’s anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine with a visit to NATO ally Poland, the White House said.

Russia carried out a “massive strike” on critically important energy facilities of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex on Friday, the Russian defence ministry said yesterday.

Russia struck power facilities across Ukraine with missiles yesterday, the day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky concluded a tour of Western capitals, as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky received a hero’s welcome in Brussels yesterday as he lobbied star-struck EU leaders to speed the delivery of modern weapons to halt a Russian offensive.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Britain yesterday to drum up aid, winning a pledge to train Ukrainian pilots on advanced Nato fighter jets, a big symbolic step up in Western military support against Russia’s invasion.

Ukraine yesterday said the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian troops, as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east bringing tens of thousands of freshly mobilised troops to the battlefield.

Russia today said its relations with India are under some "stress" due to the current tectonic geo-political shifts in view of the "arrogant" approach of the US-led West on the Ukraine conflict including its sanction regime against Moscow that caused disruptions in financial and logistics mechanisms.