Moscow-backed separatists have pounded eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for sophisticated Western weapons to stop the onslaught.
A ship has entered the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia completed its capture of the city to load metal and ship it east to Russia, TASS news agency reported, in a move that Kyiv decried as looting.
Ukraine says it has held off the latest assault on an eastern city that has become the main target of Moscow's offensive since Russian forces finally seized Mariupol last week.
As many as 60 people are feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor says.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says diplomatic efforts are under way to save the remaining fighters holed up inside the Azovstal steelworks in the city of Mariupol, as more civilians were evacuated from the bombed-out plant.
Dozens more civilians have been rescued from the tunnels under a besieged steel mill in Mariupol where Ukrainian fighters have been making their last stand to prevent Russia's complete takeover of the strategically important port city.
Ukraine's shelling has killed and injured its own civilians in the southern region of Kherson, Russia says, after pounding southern and eastern areas with missile strikes, while some civilians evacuated from a steel plant in besieged Mariupol.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened to withdraw from the ongoing peace talks with Russia if Ukrainian fighters trapped in the port city of Mariupol are killed by the Russian forces besieging the city.
Civilians have fled areas of eastern Ukraine ahead of an anticipated Russian offensive, while Kyiv says it's checking reports that Russian forces used chemical weapons in the besieged port city of Mariupol.
