The White House is urging Russia to allow civilian evacuations to continue from a besieged steel plant in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Mariupol.
Though around 100 evacuees did reach safety within the last 24 hours, the Avostal factory has again been shelled by the Russians.
Hundreds of people are trapped, living in tunnels beneath it.
Reporter Oz Katerji is following the humanitarian crisis in Mariupol from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
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The Russians said today they have hit and destroyed a key bridge that provides the only road and rail link from the southern part of the region surrounding Odesa to the rest of Ukraine.
Reporter Will Denselow is in the Latvian capital Riga, beyond the reach of the Kremlin's reporting restrictions.
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