UN working to evacuate civilians from Mariupol
As many as 100,000 people are believed to be in the blockaded port city still.
As many as 100,000 people are believed to be in the blockaded port city still.
Trolls are said to be amplifying pro-Kremlin viewpoints while targeting Boris Johnson’s social media accounts.
Meanwhile, a senior US defence official said Moscow’s offensive is going much slower than planned.
Marcin Zawisza is offering his home to Olena Stadnik, who has been stuck near the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
Civic authorities in the embattled Ukrainian city say Russian occupiers are failing to provide food, water and medicines.
Gazprom said it had cut natural gas deliveries to the two EU member states because they refused to pay in Russian roubles.
US defence secretary Lloyd Austin convened a meeting of officials from around 40 countries at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany to pledge more weapons.
Meanwhile, two fires were reported at oil facilities in western Russia, not far from the Ukrainian border.
It is an apparent bid to eliminate the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic city the Kremlin claims its military has otherwise seized.
Local officials said up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians had been killed by Russian forces.
Ukraine rejected the idea that a Russian victory in Mariupol was already achieved.
The Ministry of Defence said Russia likely wants to demonstrate significant successes ahead of its annual May 9 Victory Day celebrations.
The new taskforce of two to eight ships patrolling at a time aims to target smugglers, a US vice admiral said.
The Moskva had the capacity to carry 16 long-range cruise missiles, and its removal reduces Russia’s firepower in the Black Sea.
Artem Severiukhin has been dropped by his team, Ward Racing, following the incident.