In the freezing mist, heavily-armed soldiers checked our passports and press accreditation.  We're in an exclusive district of Kyiv, home to the city's presidential palace.

Mother and daughter, their car loaded with luggage, are driving together back to their house in this bombed-out suburb of ...

"The rain, the clouds, the lack of sun - I feel at home here," Nikita Vitiugov says. London, the chess grandmaster remarks, ...