Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, urged Israeli legislators to help protect Ukraine against the Russian invasion, drawing comparisons between the Russian offensive and the “final solution” – the plan by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews.
Mariupol’s city council says Russia bombed an art school where 400 civilians, including children, were sheltering.
Thousands of residents of Mariupol have been forcibly deported to Russia, and then sent by rail to various cities where they have to remain for at least two years, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman has claimed.
Ten million people – about a quarter of the pre-war population – have now fled their homes in Ukraine due to Russia’s “devastating” war, the head of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said.
One of Europe’s largest metallurgical facilities, the the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, has been destroyed by the Russians, Vadym Denysenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said.
Russia has struck Ukraine with cruise missiles from ships in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, and launched hypersonic missiles from Crimean airspace, the Russian defence ministry said.
An attack on a marine barracks in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Friday killed more than 40 marines, according to the New York Times. If confirmed, it would be one of the deadliest known attacks on Ukrainian forces during the war.
At least 902 civilians have been killed and 1,459 injured in Ukraine as of midnight local time yesterday, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said.
The Ukrainian parliament says 115 Ukrainian children have been killed and at least 140 more have been injured.
Pope Francis has described what is happening in Ukraine as “inhumane and sacrilegious”. Addressing tens of thousands of people in St Peter’s Square for his weekly Sunday address and blessing, he called on leaders to stop “this repugnant war”.
A shell exploded outside an apartment block in Kyiv, wounding five people, the mayor of the city said on Sunday.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has claimed that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is “close”, despite the scepticism of western governments.
Eleven Ukrainian political parties have been suspended because of their links with Russia, according to Zelenskiy.
