Finland's president and prime minister on Thursday announced their support for joining NATO, bringing the Nordic nation, which shares a more than 1,200-kilometre border with Russia, one step closer to membership in the US-led military alliance. Joined.
The Kremlin said the move would be a threat to Russia.
All civilians sheltering at Mariupol's Azovstal steel plant are likely to have left, according to a Ukrainian official inside the besieged facility.
Russian soldiers shot two unarmed civilians in March as they walked away after an encounter outside kyiv.
CNN obtained surveillance video of what is now being investigated as a war crime.
For the first time, a civilian in Russia has reportedly been killed as a result of cross-border shelling from Ukraine, according to Russian authorities.