A third attempt to evacuate civilians trapped in Mariupol is under way, UN confirms; Russian shelling and assault of Azovstal steel works ‘do not stop’, Zelenskiy says
- EU plans to put Putin’s rumoured girlfriend on sanctions list
- Putin hopes to claim Mariupol as key prop in Victory Day celebrations
- Russia opens artillery barrages in south and east Ukraine
- Banning Russian oil: defunding Putin’s war machine
Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine.
I’m Samantha Lock and I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments until my colleague Martin Belam in London takes the reins a little later.
