A spokesperson for US President Joe Biden stops short of calling the deaths of dozens of people a war crime, but says the US will support "efforts to investigate exactly what happened".
Take a look back at all of Saturday's events in our blog.
Key events
- Odesa authorities confirm two missile attacks - one resulting in casualties in Krasnosilka
- Russian general who worked in Syria in charge of war offensive in Ukraine
- Zelenskyy says Ukraine has intercepted comms evidence of war crimes
- Ukraine war pushes world food prices to record high
- Train station attack in Kramatorsk death toll rises to 52
- Ukrainian officials: 67 buried in mass grave in Bucha
- Russia revokes registration of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
- EU promises fast-track for Ukrainian process
Live updates
By Caitlyn Davey
That's all folks
We're wrapping the blog up here, but you can stay up to date via our Ukraine updates story here in the meantime.
We'll be back early tomorrow morning with more news from the invasion.
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Odesa authorities confirm two missile attacks - one resulting in casualties in Krasnosilka
Odesa's authorities confirmed Friday that two attacks have occurred in the region between Thursday night and Friday.
Maksym Marchenko, Governor of Odesa district confirmed the strikes on a video shared on social media.
The first of the attacks was on Krasnosilka, a village in the region, which killed and wounded several people as well as damaging buildings.
The second missile attack near Odessa resulted in no casualties.
The attacks on Friday were the second hitting the district located in the Black Sea in less than one week.
Due to the attack at Kramatorsk train station and the missiles reaching Odesa, Mr Marchenko also ordered a curfew starting from 9pm on Saturday until 6am the following Monday.
By Caitlyn Davey
Germany ministers file war crimes complaint as Ukraine says it intercepted evidence of soldiers committing crimes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine has intercepted audio of soldiers discussing crimes they committed while involved in the conflict, and reports have emerged that Germany's intelligence agency has discovered similar.
Mr Zelenskyy says: “There are (Russian) soldiers talking with their parents about what they stole and who they abducted. There are recordings of (Russian) prisoners of war who admitted to killing people.
“There are pilots in prison who had maps with civilian targets to bomb. There are also investigations being conducted based on the remains of the dead.”
Mr Zelenskyy's comments echo reporting from Der Spiegel saying Germany's foreign intelligence agency had intercepted Russian military radio traffic in which soldiers may have discussed civilian killings in Bucha.
The weekly also reported that the recordings indicated the Russian mercenary Wagner Group was involved in atrocities there.
German government officials would not confirm or deny the report, but two former German ministers filed a war crimes complaint Thursday. Russia has denied that its military was involved in war crimes.
By Caitlyn Davey
India says focus is on stabilising economic ties with Russia
India is focused on stabilising its economic ties with Russia and is working to devise a payment mechanism to settle trade amid Western sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.
India has called for an end to violence in Ukraine but refrained from outright condemnation of Russia, with which it has long-standing political and security ties.
"We have an etablished economic relation with Russia. Given the current circumstance post development in Ukraine, I think there is an effort by both sides to ensure that this economic relationship remains stable," ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi told a news conference.
"It is not talking about increasing...it is about stabilising it because this (economic) relationship exists and it's in our interest to make sure some of this economic activity continues, and we are trying to see how we can keep that stable."
Before the Ukraine war, Indian refiners rarely bought Russian oil due to high freight costs. Western sanctions have seen many importers shunning trade with Moscow, depressing its crude prices to record discount levels, which prompted Indian companies to step in.
By Caitlyn Davey
Experts set to travel to Ukraine to identify the war's dead
An international organisation formed to identify the dead and missing from the 1990s Balkan conflicts is preparing to send a team of forensics experts to Ukraine as the death toll mounts more than six weeks into the war caused by Russia's invasion.
Authorities in Kyiv have reached out to the International Commission on Missing Persons to help put names to bodies that might otherwise remain anonymous amid the fog of war.
A team made up of a forensic pathologist, forensic archeologist and an expert on collecting DNA samples from bodies and from families to cross-match, is expected to travel to Ukraine early next week, Director-General Kathryne Bomberger told The Associated Press on Friday.
They will help identify the dead, but also document how they died — information that can feed into war crimes investigations in the future. The organisation's laboratory in an office block on a busy street in The Hague will build a central database cataloging evidence and the identities of the missing.
By Caitlyn Davey
Dutton condemns Russian bombing
Defence Minister Peter Dutton has condemned Russia's bombing of a Ukrainian train station that's killed dozens of people, as a "shocking" development.
Officials in the eastern city of Kramatorsk say at least 50 people died as they attempted to flee the war, with two missiles reportedly striking the train station.
Mr Dutton says it's another horrific display of Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutality.
"It's the latest example of the butchery that's taking place in the Ukraine," he says. "When we hear stories of people being incinerated, when we hear stories of mass graves, of civilians being shot dead on the street, the acts of barbaric behaviour."
By Caitlyn Davey
Family mourns death of 12-year-old killed in a Russian bombardment
Liudmila Sumanchuk, the grandmother of 12-year-old Veronika Kuts cries during her funeral ceremony in L'giv village, Chernihiv region. Veronika was killed during a Russian bombardment.
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International Medical Corps accepting crypto donations to help in Ukraine
People can donate Bitcoin, Ethereum or their crytpocurrency of choice on the IMC's website, which helps expand relief efforts in Ukraine.
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EU imposes sanctions on 200 additional people
The European Union has imposed sanctions on more than 200 people - including Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters.
It's part of co-ordinated action with the US, which announced similar measures two days ago.
The EU is freezing the assets of Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, as well as bringing in travel bans.
Other individuals on the EU blacklist are political leaders of the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, as well as the head of Russia's biggest bank Sberbank.
By Caitlyn Davey
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Kremlin says Russia's operation in Ukraine could end 'in foreseeable future'
The Kremlin said on Friday that what it calls Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine could end in the "foreseeable future" since its aims were being achieved and work was being carried out by both the Russian military and Russian peace negotiators.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also says Moscow understands that some countries that had tried to adopt a balanced position had been subjected to pressure to vote on Thursday to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.
The UN General Assembly suspended Russia from the Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" in Ukraine, prompting Moscow to announce it was quitting the body.
By Caitlyn Davey
South Australia to provide medical supplies to Ukraine
The South Australian government will send five pallets of medical supplies to war-torn Ukraine.
Items to be donated include masks, first aid and wound dressings, as well as pulse oximeters — which are surplus stock across the state's public hospital network.
SA Premier Peter Malinauskas says donating the medical supplies is one small way the state can help those injured in the war.
He is also calling on the federal government to raise the refugee intake from Ukraine.
By Caitlyn Davey
Bodies pulled from rubble in Borodyanka as clean-up crews work through damage
Rescue workers in Borodyanka, north-west of Kyiv, were on Friday clearing out rubble from apartment buildings and structures destroyed by heavy Russian shelling.
While some were clearing out debris using a bulldozer and a digger, others used their bare hands to pick through the rubble.
"My children were lying under the rubble. They just took my children out from under the rubble," cried 77-year-old Mariya.
Ukraine's prosecutor general on Thursday reported 26 bodies were found under two ruined buildings in the town.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday warned that the situation in the town of Borodyanka is "significantly more dreadful" than in nearby Bucha.
Ukrainian officials say Russia's military is regrouping after withdrawing eastwards from the zone around Kyiv, where a forensics team on Friday began exhuming a mass grave in the town of Bucha.
Reporting by Reuters.
By Caitlyn Davey
'Only Russia' would have reason to target railway in Donbas, says expert
Experts refuted Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov's assertion that Russian forces "do not use" the type of missile that devastated Kramatorsk, killing at least 52 civilians, saying Russia has used it during the war.
One analyst added that only Russia would have reason to target railway infrastructure in the Donbas.
"The Ukrainian military is desperately trying to reinforce units in the area … and the railway stations in that area in Ukrainian-held territory are critical for movement of equipment and people," said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London.
Mr Bronk pointed to other occasions when Russian authorities have tried to deflect blame by claiming their forces no longer use an older weapon "to kind of muddy the waters and try and create doubt".
He also suggested that Russia specifically chose the missile type because Ukraine also has it.
A Western official, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, also said Russia's forces have used the missile — and that given the strike's location and impact, it was "likely" Russia's.
By Caitlyn Davey
Ukrainian villagers count dead after weeks confined in school basement
Halyna Tolochina, a member of the village council, struggled to compose herself as she went through the list, scribbled in black on the plaster either side of a green door, in the gloomy warren where she said she and hundreds of others were confined.
To the left of the door were scrawled the seven names of people killed by Russian soldiers.
To the right were the 10 names of people who died because of the harsh conditions in the basement, she said.
"This old man died first," Tolochina said, pointing at the name of Muzyka D, for Dmytro Muzyka, whose death was recorded on March 9. "He died in the big room, in this one."
Reporting by Reuters.
By Caitlyn Davey
Russian general who worked in Syria in charge of war offensive in Ukraine
Western officials say a Russian general with extensive experience in Syria has been put in charge of Moscow's operations in Ukraine.
General Alexander Dvornikov has been given the job of improving co-ordination between Russia's forces.
Officials expect new offensives in the south and the east of Ukraine "sooner rather than later".
By Caitlyn Davey
International Monetary Fund establishes secure account for donations from member countries
The International Monetary Fund has confirmed an administered account for Ukraine, which will provide donors with a "secure vehicle to direct financial assistance to Ukraine", in a statement.
The account will channel donor resources through grants and loans aimed at assisting Ukraine to "meet its balance of payments and budgetary needs and help stabilise its economy", the IMF says.
The IMF says the move was requested by several member countries.
By Caitlyn Davey
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Bodies still being discovered in Bucha
In Bucha, Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk has said investigators found at least three sites of mass shootings of civilians and were still finding bodies in yards, parks and city squares - 90 per cent of whom were shot.
Russia has falsely claimed that the scenes in Bucha were staged.
On Friday, workers pulled corpses from a mass grave near a town church under spitting rain, lining up black body bags in rows in the mud.
About 67 people were buried in the grave, according to a statement from Prosecutor-General Iryna Venediktova's office, which is investigating.
“Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal that must be held,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, his voice rising in anger late Friday.
By Caitlyn Davey
International condemnation of the attack on Kramatorsk
International leaders have condemned Russia's attack on civilians at a train station in Kramatorsk, in which at least 52 people including children died.
United Nations
United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: "The strike on the Kramatorsk railway station in eastern Ukraine today, which killed and injured scores of civilians waiting to be evacuated, including many women, children, and elderly, and other attacks against civilians and on civilian infrastructures, are completely unacceptable. They are a gross violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, for which the perpetrators must be held accountable."
Italy
Italian Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini said: "Today, I believe it is impossible to pass without mentioning Kramatorsk. There are dramatic images and civilian casualties. In my opinion, this is a crime against humanity. What is happening in Ukraine is a source of great concern for each of us. The response of the international community to Russian aggression was swift, determined and unanimous condemnation.”
United States
The White House has also condemned the attacks, with press secretary Jen Psaki saying: "What we've seen over the course of the last six weeks or more than that has been what the President himself has characterised as war crimes, which is the intentional targeting of civilians. This is yet another horrific atrocity committed by Russia. Striking civilians who are trying to evacuate and reach safety. Where we are now is we're going to support efforts to investigate this attack as we document Russia's actions, hold them accountable."
