RUSSIA UKRAINE CRISIS: FULL COVERAGE

It comes as Ukrainian forces have struggled to make major gains in their counteroffensive against Russia.

When Russian soldiers marched into Ukraine on February 24 last year the world watched on in disbelief.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed support for Ukraine joining NATO, saying the war-torn country deserves to join the alliance.

The Belarusian military has showed off a field camp it has offered to Russia's Wagner military contractor if it relocates to Belarus under a deal that ended its mutiny.

Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained at camps.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy alleged Russian troops had placed "objects resembling explosives" on top of several of the plant's power units to "simulate" an attack from outside.

Zelenskyy claimed half of Russia supported the Wagner boss and the paramilitary group's mutiny.

The Ukrainian leader said the private military company had suffered "enormous losses," particularly in eastern Ukraine where its "most powerful group" was fighting.

Documents shared exclusively with CNN suggest that a top Russian military commander, General Sergey Surovikin, was a secret VIP member of the Wagner Group.

US President Joe Biden has been caught on camera in another awkward pronunciation blunder, mistakenly referring to the "war in Iraq" instead of Ukraine.

The pizza restaurant was frequented by journalists, aid workers and soldiers, as well as local residents.

Prigozhin and some of his troops would be welcome to stay in Belarus "for some time" at their own expense.

He blamed the West and Kyiv for setting Russians against Russians, and promised "justice" to the ringleaders.

Australia will soon send more cash and military support to Ukraine to fight invading Russian forces.

Russia's fight to build its embassy on a controversial plot of land near tot he Australian Parliament has headlines around the world.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the chaotic insurrection led by the Wagner paramilitary group shows "cracks" in Russian President Vladimir Putin's role as a leader of the country.

Russian leader must navigate the aftermath of the most serious challenge to his authority since he came to power in 2000.

Wagner's planned uprising has set a "dangerous precedent". One that could "provide an indication of what might be to come for Russia".

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said he had turned his private mercenary forces around from a march toward Moscow to avoid bloodshed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zekenskyy says it is clear that Russia is suffering from "full-scale weakness" after mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin launched an armed rebellion.

The Russian president is facing the most serious threat to his hold on power in all the 23 years he's run the nuclear state.

Here is a look at the 62-year-old Prigozhin and Wagner’s role in the war.

On trial again, Alexei Navalny has urged his supporters to begin a broad campaign against Moscow's actions in Ukraine.

Russian missiles hit civilian buildings in a central Ukrainian city, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen in a warehouse and a residential building, regional officials said.

The US State Department said it is continuing to monitor the arrest of one of its citizens in Moscow.

Russia insists its forces are holding lines after the start of Ukraine's long awaited counteroffensive.

Ukraine's security services have reportedly claimed an intercepted phone call shows Russian involvement in the collapse of Kakhovka dam earlier this week.

Iran is providing Russia with materials to build a drone manufacturing plant east of Moscow as the Kremlin looks to lock in a steady supply of weaponry for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine

Grainy black-and-white gunsight clip Russia released this week to bolster a claim its military blew up some of Ukraine's most fearsome tanks actually documented destruction of a tractor.

Two nearby villages under occupation, Dnipryany and Korsunka, were underwater up to the rooftops of homes and a bright blue church.

The explosive devices are floating in floodwaters and pose a major hazard to residents, an international aid group warned.

Authorities have been rushing supplies of drinking water to flooded areas from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine.

The collapse flooded villages, endangered crops in the country's breadbasket and threatened drinking water supplies.

She is among hundreds of children killed in Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

Officials announced that an inspection had found nearly a quarter of the country's air-raid shelters locked or unusable.

Melbourne City Council has decided to formally end its relationship with its Russian sister city after Ukrainian protesters gathered in Melbourne CBD.

He claims several buildings have been damaged, after Russia unleashed a relentless wave of daylight and nighttime bombardments targeting Kyiv.

Lindsey Graham said he regarded the Kremlin's actions as a "badge of honour" for him.

Residents were forced to take shelter in underground railway stations as civilian areas were targeted.

A statement claims Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe.

Both countries said the move had been prompted by 'western aggression'.

Footage released by the Russian ministry showed the maritime drone dodging gun fire before exploding in a massive fireball

Anti-Putin Russian nationals claimed they were behind the shelling that damaged buildings in southwestern Russia.

The chief of the Russian private military group had claimed his forces took complete control of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

It comes as leaders of the world's most powerful democracies worked to toughen punishments on Russia for its 15-month invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a summit of Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia before what a senior official said would be a trip to Japan for a meeting with the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies.

The sanctions come as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrived in Japan for the G7 summit in Hiroshima.

Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy is planning to make a dramatic in-person appearance at this weekend's summit in Japan.

Western-supplied air defences helped Ukraine thwart an 'exceptional' strike on the nation's capital.

The US spy agency believed now offers an "unprecedented" opportunity to convince Russians disaffected by the war in Ukraine and life in Russia to share their secrets.