Ukrainian officials say 130 people have been rescued from the rubble of a theatre in Mariupol where around 1,000 Ukrainians were thought to have been sheltering from Russian shelling.
Efforts to free those who remain trapped continue.
Look back on all of Friday's updates as they happened.
Key events
- 130 people rescued from Mariupol theatre
- One dead after intercepted missile hits Kyiv apartment building
- Zelenskyy surprises wounded girl in Kyiv hospital
- Missiles strike near airport in western safe-haven city of Lviv
- World leaders renew calls to investigate attacks on civilians
- G7 leading economies call on Russia to withdraw its forces from Ukraine
- Joe Biden will speak with Xi Jinping at midnight AEDT
- Australian government sanctions two Russian oligarchs
- WHO verifies 43 attacks on hospitals by Russian troops, Ukraine in urgent need of medical supplies
Live updates
By Jacqueline Howard
That's all from the blog tonight
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By Jacqueline Howard
Kyiv says 222 killed in capital since start of war, including 60 civilians
Kyiv city authorities said 222 people had been killed in the capital since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began, including 60 civilians and four children.
A further 889 people have been wounded, including 241 civilians, the Kyiv city administration said in a statement.
By Jacqueline Howard
World Food Programme says supply chains 'falling apart' in Ukraine
A World Food Programme (WFP) official said food supply chains in Ukraine are collapsing, with a portion of infrastructure destroyed and many grocery stores and warehouses empty.
"The country's food supply chain is falling apart. Movements of goods have slowed down due to insecurity and the reluctance of drivers," Jakob Kern, WFP Emergency Coordinator for the Ukraine crisis, told a Geneva press briefing by videolink from Poland.
He also expressed concern about the situation in "encircled cities" such as Mariupol, saying that food and water supplies were running out and that its convoys had been unable to enter the city.
WFP buys nearly half of its wheat supplies from Ukraine and Mr Kern said that the crisis there since the Russian invasion had pushed up food prices sharply.
"With global food prices at an all-time high, WFP is also concerned about the impact of the Ukraine crisis on food security globally, especially hunger hot spots," he said, warning of "collateral hunger" in other places.
By Jacqueline Howard
130 people rescued from Mariupol theatre
Ukrainian ombudswoman Ludmyla Denisova said 130 people have been rescued so far from the rubble of a theatre hit by an air strike on Wednesday in the besieged eastern city of Mariupol.
In a televised address, Ms Denisova said rescue work was ongoing at the site, where many people were sheltering underground before the building was hit, according to the Ukrainian authorities.
By Jacqueline Howard
‘A blow to the city of Lviv’. Information on today’s missile strike emerges
By Emily Clark in Lviv
Governor Maksym Kozytskyy said so far one person was known to be injured in the attack.
He said the missiles were launched from the Black Sea and two were shot down by Ukraine’s air defense system. The country’s air command published similar information.
“According to preliminary data, six winged missiles … were launched from the Black Sea,” a post to the official Facebook page of the western division of Ukraine’s air command read.
Both the Governor and the air command post said two were shot down.
“Four of them hit … in the aircraft repair plant,” Governor Kozytskyy said.
He said the plant had already been shut down and insisted there were no working military facilities in Lviv at the moment. The aircraft repair plant is near the main Lviv airport, but it is a different complex. Both are about 8 kilometres from the city.
“It is a blow to the city of Lviv, namely to the humanitarian hub, in which there are already 200,000 refugees who have already fled the war” Governor Kozytskyy said.
Lviv is still a secure city. The targets that have been hit over the past week are military or strategic targets, but Lviv is of course a hub for displaced Ukrainians making their way to Poland and for aid coming into the country.
The attack on the Yavoriv base on Sunday was as far west as the war has been and was considered an escalation by Russia. There have been other strikes in the western region included the airfields of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk.
We’ve had air raid sirens every night for a week now, but this is the first time we have heard explosions from our position in the city centre. I heard three of the four blasts, one on its own and then two in quick succession just after the alarm sounded.
By Jacqueline Howard
Why haven't we heard more from the theatre in Mariupol?
Yesterday evening, reports emerged that a bomb shelter in the basement of a theatre in Mariupol had survived an airstrike by Russian forces.
Since then, rescuers have been working to free the hundreds of people now trapped in the shelter under rubble.
More than a day after the airstrike, there were no reports of deaths.
With communications disrupted across the city and movement difficult because of shelling and other fighting, we are seeing conflicting reports on whether anyone had emerged from the rubble.
“We hope and we think that some people who stayed in the shelter under the theatre could survive,” Petro Andrushchenko, an official with the mayor’s office, told The Associated Press.
He said the building had a relatively modern basement bomb shelter designed to withstand airstrikes. Video and photos provided by the Ukrainian military showed that the at least three-story building had been reduced to a roofless shell, with some exterior walls collapsed.
Other officials had said earlier that some people had gotten out. Ukraine’s ombudswoman, Ludmyla Denisova, said on the Telegram messaging app that the shelter had held up.
Reporting by Associated Press
By Jacqueline Howard
UK media regulator bans Russian TV channel, Kremlin furious
Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, said Russian state-backed television channel RT was not "fit and proper to hold a UK broadcast license", and revoked it with immediate effect.
The move is largely symbolic, as the broadcaster is already off the air due to sanctions imposed by the European Union.
The Kremlin described Britain's decision as "madness".
By Jacqueline Howard
In pictures: Kyiv explosion
One person was killed and four wounded after parts of a Russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday morning, emergencies services said.
All images were originally shared by the SES.
By Jacqueline Howard
Residential building shelled in Donetsk
Authorities are combing through the damage after a residential building in the Donetsk separatist region was hit by shelling.
A number of people have died in the attack, though no official figures have been released yet.
The above image has been cropped and edited. The original image, which we have seen but decided not to publish, shows at least three bodies lying covered in the street outside the building.
By Jacqueline Howard
Ukrainian refugees in Poland exceeds 2 million
The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine to Poland is now higher than 2 million, Polish authorities say.
The border guard said those crossing the border were "mainly women and children".
By Jacqueline Howard
One person injured in Lviv strike
Our reporter in Lviv, Emily Clark, says at least one person has been injured in the strike that destroyed buildings at the State Aircraft Repair Centre.
By Jacqueline Howard
One dead, 11 injured in shelling in Kharkiv
In Kharkiv, Russian shelling has damaged a higher education institution and nearby residential buildings.
The SES is reporting one person was killed, 11 people were injured and one person is trapped.
By Jacqueline Howard
Here's what we know about the missile strikes in Lviv
The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has been hit by a series of explosions after an early morning air raid alert.
Plumes of smoke have been seen over the city as emergency services respond to the blasts.
Lviv's Mayor Andriy Sadoviy said Russian missiles had struck an area near the airport, but the airport itself had not been attacked.
Several missiles also destroyed buildings at an aircraft repair plant, he added.
The plant had been stopped and there were no casualties from the strike.
An explosion was heard and smoke was seen in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Friday morning, a Reuters witness said.
There was no official information about the attack.
Lviv, just 70 kilometres from the Polish border, has been a sanctuary city for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion.
Around 200,000 internally displaced people are staying in the city and 50,000 people a day are going through Lviv railway station, according to Mr Sadoviy.
On Monday he said the city had already reached its capacity to help, calling on international humanitarian organisations for aid.
By Jacqueline Howard
One dead after intercepted missile hits Kyiv apartment building
Ukrainian authorities say an explosion in northern Kyiv a short time ago was due to the debris of a Russian missile that was downed by Ukrainian forces.
A five-storey apartment building caught fire as a result.
Early reports coming through indicate one person has died at the scene.
The SES says a total of 98 people were evacuated from the building and 12 of those required rescue from the fire. Of those, four people were injured.
By Jacqueline Howard
From the ground in Lviv
Australian writer Misha Zelinsky is on the ground in the Ukrainian city of Lviv where air raid sirens have been going off and blasts have been heard.
Mr Zelinsky told the ABC's PM program's Nick Grimm it appeared a missile strike hit the outskirts of the city.
"What I can say is from where I am I can see smoke, I can smell smoke, so it's certainly very concerning," he said.
Mr Zelinsky, who only this week joined a convoy taking aid supplies into Kryvyi Rih, in central Ukraine, said it was heartening to be part of the operation which was simply about helping people — amid signs of hope.
He said he was part of convoy driven by a German and Ukrainian delivering supplies to the steel city 835km away.
While signs of war were obvious, he also saw parts of the country that seemed unaffected by the conflict.
"Ukraine's called colloquially the bread basket of Europe, where I was driving you could see fields of open pastureland being ready for the spring….that land is critical for feeding Ukrainians," he said.
While there wasn't a lot of damage to those parts he did see lots of interesting things along the way, including checkpoints, and signs which said "Russian soldiers make great fertilizer" right outside farm land.
Mr Zelinsky said while food was relatively easy to come by medical supplies were more difficult to get.
"There's a shortage unsurprisingly of bullet proof vests," he said.
On the journey back to Lviv they were asked to take some refugees.
"I had some severe karmic repayment after I was very generously taken out of Kyiv a couple of weeks ago by a couple of medical students… so clearly you need to help everyone where you can," he said.
"We picked up a family and it turned out the son of that family, the 13-year-old son, had broken his back quite badly — he had a couple of smashed vertebra — and so we had to carry him down three flights of stairs on a door that we pulled off a cupboard and carry him down to the car. He was a tough kid and lay there for 14 hours."
After driving for hours across the country, they took the boy to the hospital where doctors looked at him and said they were confident he would be able to walk again.
"In amongst all the awful that you're seeing to know that we were able to get this kid out.. is a nice thing among all the horror," he said.
By Jonathan Hepburn
Australian teachers touch down in Tasmania after fleeing Ukraine
Two Australians fleeing the war in Ukraine have finally touched down in Tasmania to the warm embrace of family after a marathon 30 hours journey.
Rachel Lehmann-Ware and her husband Duncan Ware flew into Hobart on Friday afternoon after travelling for 30 hours from Bucharest in southern Romania.
The couple were met by a welcoming committee of family and friends who rushed to the pair once they appeared.
Ms Lehmann-Ware said just as they were leaving, "Russians bombed the town".
She said at one stage they were on a train that had all the lights turned off, so Russians could not see it and bomb it.
"We had to walk across the Ukraine border. That was like something out of the World War II movie," she said.
By Jonathan Hepburn
The US hit Oleg Deripaska with sanctions in 2018. Why did Australia wait until now?
Oleg Deripaska, the prominent billionaire Russian oligarch newly sanctioned by Australia over his ties to Vladimir Putin and his regime amid the war in Ukraine, has enjoyed a relatively untroubled time as an investor here until now, despite serious accusations against him.
The US Senate intelligence committee has said that Mr Deripaska's companies "are proxies for the Kremlin, including for Russian government influence efforts, economic measures and diplomatic relations".
Mr Deripaska has also been accused by the US Treasury of laundering money for Mr Putin and holding his assets. He has strongly denied this.
Four Corners takes a look at Mr Deripaska's involvement with an Australian miner, and claims he should have been sanctioned earlier.
By Jonathan Hepburn
Explosion, smoke in northern Kyiv
An explosion has been heard and smoke seen in the northern part of the capital, Kyiv, according to a Reuters witness.
More to come.
By Jonathan Hepburn
Origin Energy says sanctioned Russian oligarch has 'no involvement' with NT Beetaloo Basin drilling
A gas company exploring the Northern Territory's Beetaloo Basin says Australian sanctions against a Russian billionaire with links to the project are unlikely to affect its drilling activities.
This morning, the federal government imposed sanctions on two Russian oligarchs with business interests in Australia: Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg.
Mr Vekselberg is a self-made aluminium baron and owner of Lamesa Holdings, which has shareholdings in Falcon Oil & Gas, a partner of Origin Energy's joint venture in the gas-rich Beetaloo Basin.
The billionaire was previously the subject of international sanctions over Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea.
He has now been added to Australia's official sanctions list, along with 20 Russian businesses, as part of the federal government's response to the invasion in Ukraine.
In a statement, Origin Energy said it was aware Mr Vekselberg had been issued sanctions by Australia.
However, given that Origin Energy was the majority owner and operator in the Beetaloo Basin project, the company said it would continue to have "control over all activities".
"Neither Lamesa Holdings, nor Mr Vekselberg, are a party to the Beetaloo Basin joint venture," the company said in a statement.
"They have no role in, involvement or dealings with, Origin or the Beetaloo Basin joint venture."
