Ukraine struck one of Russia's most strategically significant defense facilities overnight, hitting the Votkinsk Machine Building Plant in a remote area nearly 800 miles from the Ukrainian border.

Ukrainian pride and solidarity were on full display on Sunday as a large crowd gathered in downtown London to mark four long years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny after Varvarych lost both his legs during the Russian invasion.

Let the weapons fall silent, let the bombings cease, let an immediate ceasefire be reached, and let dialogue be strengthened to pave the way toward peace," he said.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has now lasted longer than WWII's Eastern Front, with nearly 2 million casualties and no peace settlement in sight

Senate Democrats traveled to Kyiv and Odessa to show solidarity with the war-torn nation and make the case that the United States should do more, including imposing harsh sanctions on Russia.

VLADIMIR PUTIN has blasted Ukraine with more explosives over the past two years than Hitler hurled at Britain during the whole of World War Two. Russia unleashed 90,000 missiles, bombs and drones

Olena Bilozerska and her husband always knew they wanted children. She was 34 and they were ready to start trying when the war erupted in eastern Ukraine in 2014. The couple joined the fight and decided a baby would have to wait.