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Ukraine’s president has praised his people’s resilience as parts of the Kherson region were liberated from Russian occupation – and he delivered a warning to Russian soldiers left behind. Special military units were in the region’s capital – also called Kherson – late on Friday night, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address, adding: “The

Jubilant Ukrainians have raised flags and celebrated inside Kherson after Russian forces withdrew from the city in a hasty retreat in which some Kremlin soldiers apparently drowned. Hours after the Russian forces completed their withdrawal, Ukrainian units re-entered the southern city, which had been occupied since March. Local residents hugged Ukrainian soldiers, cheering in the

The Ukrainian army is on a roll – they are taking advantage of Russia’s faltering military, and now they have the city of Kherson in their sights. We are taken by an artillery team on a mission down a road that is scarred and littered with the debris from months of brutal fighting. As we

Egyptian prison authorities have intervened medically days after jailed British-Egyptian pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah escalated his hunger strike, his mother said. The nature of the intervention is not known but Mr Abd El-Fattah’s family have expressed fears prison officials will force-feed the activist. The family say this would amount to torture. Mr Abd El-Fattah,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukrainians to “be restrained” and cautious following the Russian order to withdraw troops from the key southern city of Kherson. In his nightly address, the Ukrainian president warned that the “enemy does not bring us gifts” and suggested that Moscow’s retreat from Kherson could be a ruse to lure Ukrainian forces

Russian troops have been ordered to withdraw from the city of Kherson and surrounding areas in the south of Ukraine. Russia’s top commander in Ukraine, General Sergei Surovikin, said it is no longer possible to supply the city and other parts of the west bank of the Dnipro River that it sits on. In televised

Russian shelling has destroyed five million acres of forest in Ukraine in less than six months, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a blistering attack on Vladimir Putin’s war and its global ramifications. The war is “destroying the world’s ability to work united for a common goal”, the Ukrainian president said in a video address to

Russia flew €140m in cash and a selection of captured UK and US weapons to Iran in return for dozens of deadly drones for its war in Ukraine, a security source has claimed. A Russian military aircraft secretly transported the cash and three models of munition – a British NLAW anti-tank missile, a US Javelin

Planet Earth is on “the highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator”, the United Nations chief has told world leaders as they gather for annual talks, following a year of violent effects of climate change. “We are in the fight of our lives – and we are losing,” UN Secretary-General Antonio

Kyiv’s mayor has told residents to consider leaving the capital in the event of a complete blackout. Urging residents to “consider everything” including a worst-case scenario where the capital loses power and water, Vitali Klitschko said he could not rule out the prospect of a total loss of power. “If you have extended family… or

People “cannot accept a small country from the Middle East” hosting the World Cup and those criticising the tournament are “arrogant”, Qatar’s foreign minister has told Sky News. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani described negative media coverage of the upcoming tournament as “misinformation” in an exclusive interview with Sky News Middle East correspondent Alistair

As the cold autumn rain drizzles down, volunteer Andrei Seletskii loads his car with humanitarian supplies. He is now the only help getting through to the frontline villages in this part of Kherson region, but getting the food, medicine, water and warm clothing to the people there is not easy. Iran admits sending weapons to

Vladimir Putin has backed the evacuation of civilians from parts of Kherson region, as Ukrainian forces advancing in the south close in on a key city. The signal from the Russian president is the latest sign of the Kremlin forces’ retreat in one of the most bitterly contested areas in Ukraine. It comes after Russian-installed

Rich countries must sign a pact with poor countries on the climate or “we will be doomed” – that’s the warning from UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres. Speaking ahead of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt, Mr Guterres said wealthier countries must help emerging economies to speed up their transition to renewable energy. “COP27 must be

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has revealed details of his attack after he was shot during a rally in an address to the nation. Mr Khan said he was shot four times, with two bullets hitting each of his legs, during a protest march in Pakistan on Thursday. Describing his injuries, a doctor in

Russia’s ambassador to the UK has claimed Britain played a role in an attack on its warships – warning the country is “too deep” in the Ukraine war. In an interview with Sky’s Mark Austin, top diplomat Andrei Kelin claimed he had proof that UK special forces were involved in a Ukrainian drone assault on

Ukrainian soldiers are using shop-bought drones as their eyes and ears in the trenches or flying them above Russian tanks and dropping grenades through open hatches. Meanwhile, back in Kyiv swarms of Iranian-made kamikaze drones are wreaking misery and plunging citizens into darkness. What are the main types of drones being used in Ukraine? Will

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has been shot in the leg in what his supporters say was an assassination attempt. A gunman opened fire while Mr Khan, 70, was giving a speech at a rally in Wazirabad in Punjab province on Thursday, wounding him and some of his supporters, officials said. Sky’s Cordelia Lynch,

North Korea has fired a number of missiles, including what is thought to have been an intercontinental ballistic missile that prompted an evacuation warning for parts of Japan. One of the missiles reached an altitude of 1,200 miles and travelled about 460 miles, Japan’s defence minister Yasukazu Hamada said. The flight pattern – a “lofted

Russia is set to resume its participation in the Ukraine grain export deal, the country’s defence ministry has confirmed. Moscow pulled out of the UN-brokered agreement over the weekend following what it called a “terrorist attack” on its fleet of Black Sea ships in Crimea by Ukrainian forces. The country said it could not guarantee