Russian voters poured ink into ballot boxes and lit firebombs at polling stations as the first of the country’s three day presidential election begins that is all but certain to extend Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years. Videos have been posted across social media of protestors attempting...

   Western leaders have descended on Kyiv to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni joined others in travelling to Kyiv by train on Friday night. The...

   Ukrainian warplanes damaged a Russian ship moored in the Black Sea off Crimea, both countries said Tuesday. The strike has bolstered Ukrainian morale after battlefield disappointments and doubts about the future of Western aid. Russia rsquo;s defence ministry conceded that the Novocherkassk...

   The US has announced it will give cluster bombs to Ukraine, despite most of the world and the UN banning the use of the munitions. The decision came as leaders of Nato countries gathered in Lithuania where President Joe Biden is likely to face questions from his partners over why they would use...

   Those involved in the Wagner Group’s aborted armed rebellion on Moscow wanted quot;Russian soldiers to kill each other quot; and were quot;taking revenge for their failures at the front quot;, president Vladimir Putin has said in a recorded address. Speaking for the first time since Saturday’s...

   Evacuating the dead and injured from Ukraine’s frontline has become one of the biggest challenges for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Russian drones patrol the skies above the battlefield ready to pick off anyone making their way through it. Now even the armoured evacuation vehicles can’t venture in...

   They were places of hell in the last century and time has done nothing to ease the horrors of trench warfare. Technology may have allowed us to see their reality better, but it has not made this style of battle any less brutal. They remain some of the worst places to live and die. Now they tear...

   The soldiers of the th Brigade stood close to the tree line to take their battle commands. A shelter from the sun and hopefully from Russian surveillance and attack. Men who didn rsquo;t used to be soldiers are soldiers now and fighting their hardest battles. It rsquo;s one thing to defend...

   For the first time, ITV News has travelled to the frontline of the Ukrainian counter offensive. The troops are fighting to regain their homeland after Russia’s unprovoked attack over a year ago. Emma Murphy has been with military units near the area of Bakhmut from where she sent this eyewitness...

   Ukraine has accused Russian forces of blowing up a major dam and hydroelectric power station in the south of the country, causing a massive flood. Hundreds of thousands of residents, in the Ukrainian controlled area of Kherson, were ordered to gather essential documents and pets, and evacuate...

   Russian neo Nazi fighters are using a computer games platform to raise money in Europe to help fund the war in Ukraine, in what specialist lawyers have called a quot;clear cut violation quot; of western sanctions. An ITV News investigation has revealed how Taskforce Rusich, a paramilitary group...

   Vladimir Putin has labelled a drone strike on Moscow a quot;terrorist quot; attack by Kyiv aimed at intimidating Russians. Russia said eight drones targeted civilian areas of Moscow and the Moscow region with a population of over million in the early hours of Tuesday but were either shot...

   Anti Putin forces, who want to reclaim their country, invaded Russia on Monday and captured an army vehicle. The group, Russian Volunteer Corps, hopes to free the whole country and say they won’t stop until they get to Moscow. They say they’re fighting quot;for freedom quot; and quot;against...

   In the battle for Ukrainian city Bakhmut, even the field medical stations are a target, as ITV News Correspondent John Ray reports. They, meanwhile, are pre occupied by the business of saving lives. And they have never busier. rdquo; Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http: bit.ly lOHmNj ;...

   Is this the big moment That is the question asked of every Ukrainian leader, and every Ukrainian soldier we have met here. Their spring offensive, the great counter attack, has been talked about since the freezing depths of last winter. Now the warm weather is here, the rains have stopped, and...