Moscow-backed separatists have pounded eastern Ukraine's industrial Donbas region, as Ukrainian officials pleaded for sophisticated Western weapons to stop the onslaught.
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.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says his army has inflicted serious damage on Russian forces despite the fall of the key port city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian forces have launched a counteroffensive near the Russian-held town of Izium in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said, in what could prove a serious setback for Moscow's plans to capture the entire Donbas region.
The Group of Seven leading economies has warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries, and urgent measures are needed to unblock grain supplies being held up by Russia.
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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.
Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages have begun an offensive in eastern Ukraine as the US and UK led pledges for more arms and money to the government in Kyiv and the United Nations sought a ceasefire.
Ukrainian authorities say missiles have struck the western city of Lviv, killing six, and explosions rocked other cities as Russian forces kept up their bombardments after claiming near full control of the southern port of Mariupol.
Ukraine says its forces have seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.
Ukraine has recaptured more territory around Kyiv from Russian soldiers who left shattered villages and their own abandoned tanks as they moved away from the capital, while a disputed cross-border strike in Russia complicated peace talks.
Ukraine has defied a Russian demand that its forces lay down arms in Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped in a city under siege and already laid to waste by Russian bombardment.
A Russian air strike has badly damaged a children's hospital in the besieged Ukranian port city of Mariupol, burying patients under rubble and injuring women in labour, Ukraine says.
Russia has declared a partial ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, the Kremlin's defence ministry says.
