While hundreds of thousands of refugees are leaving Ukraine amid Russia’s attack on the country, some Ukrainian men and women are returning home from across Europe to help defend their homeland.

Huge explosions lit up the sky early Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations in anticipation of a full-scale assault by Russian forces.

GENEVA — The United Nations says it has confirmed at least 240 civilian casualties, including at least 64 people killed, in the fighting in Ukraine that erupted since Russia’s invasion on Thursday — though it believed the “real figures are considerably higher” because many reports of casualties remain to be confirmed. The U.N. Office for […]

When Volodymyr Zelensky grew up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade him going abroad to study in Israel.

Lines of vehicles miles-long are clogging border crossings out of the country, as residents rushed to escape danger from invading Russian troops that were advancing toward the capital, Kyiv.

Russia is revving up its sophisticated propaganda machine as its military advances in Ukraine.