EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has accused Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine, most notably in the besieged port city of Mariupol where hundreds of civilians have been killed. Ukraine rejected an ultimatum to surrender Mariupol to Russian forces. The city has endured heavy bombardments since the invasion began on February 24 and many of its 400,000 residents remain trapped with little if any food, water and power. Read FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the day’s events.
- US President Joe Biden issued one of his strongest warnings yet that Moscow is considering using chemical weapons.
- Russia’s assault on Mariupol constitutes a “massive war crime”, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday at the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
- The mayor of Kyiv said a new, longer curfew was being introduced in the Ukrainian capital from Monday night because the authorities expect further shelling by Russian forces.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that Ukraine would never bow to ultimatums Russia made Sunday calling on Ukrainian forces to lay down arms in the city of Mariupol.
- At least eight people were killed in an overnight bombing of a shopping centre in Kyiv. Russia's military claimed it was being used as a weapons store by Ukrainian forces.
- Zelensky denounced the Russian bombing of an art school in Mariupol where he said about 400 civilians were sheltering. “They are under the rubble, and we don’t know how many of them have survived,” he said. It follows last week's shelling of a theatre where more than 1,000 people had sought refuge.
- An embargo on Russian oil imports, which some European countries have requested in retaliation for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, would 'hit everyone', the Kremlin said.
- Biden will travel to Poland on Friday to meet with President Andrzej Duda for talks.
- At least 10 million people in Ukraine have fled their homes due to the "devastating" war in the country and are either internally displaced or have become refugees abroad, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, said on Twitter.
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(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS, AFP and AP)
