Kyiv mayor Vitality Klitschko says at least one person was killed and 12 more wounded in the Russian missile strikes

German politicians urged the billionaire to ‘stay out’ of their politics

Jeering residents say French president has abandoned island in the wake of cyclone Chido

Dominique Pelicot refuses to admit that he drugged his then-20-year-old daughter Caroline Dorian despite being found guilty at trial

Ukrainian security services sources say Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was a completely legitimate target as the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defence forces

Ukraine’s security service spy chief says they have killed ‘very many’ Russian conspirators

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says Vladimir Putin’s plan is to destroy everything

Ukrainian military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi says the fight to hold the eastern region of Dontesk has become ‘extremely tough’

Recently freed Travis Timmerman says he plans to return to Syria despite being jailed for seven months for entering the country without permission

The brother of Austin Tice, Jacob, says they believe every effort is being made to find the journalist in Syria

Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani says Western fears about future instability are unnecessary

Mohammed al-Bashir, a politician in his 40s from the northwest Syrian province of Idlib, has agreed to become caretaker prime minister until March next year

UK home secretary Yvette Cooper says the deal with Berlin will boost both countries’ border security

Ukraine’s military say the hottest fighting along the roughly 640-mile frontline is taking place along multiple points in Donetsk

Prisoners released from Syria’s notoriously torturous Saydnaya prison tell The Independent the feeling of freedom is indescribable and beautiful

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says the pair talked for peace in a discussion at the reopening of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris that was ‘good and productive’

Since anti-regime fighters swept into Aleppo a week ago, government forces have crumbled across the country as insurgents seized a string of major cities

French president Emmanuel Macron accuses Marine Le Pen, as well as the far left, of sowing chaos

It is the first time a government in France has been forced out by such a vote in more than 60 years

Protesters celebrate outside parliament just hours after clashing with the military