Summary
- Russian troops are holding 400 people, including doctors and patients, "like hostages" inside a hospital in Mariupol, the deputy mayor says
- Earlier about 2,000 cars carrying civilians managed to leave the city, which has been devastated by intense Russian bombardment
- Meanwhile, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has announced a 35-hour curfew in the capital, warning of "a difficult and dangerous moment"
- Russian air strikes hit a metro station and residential buildings overnight, killing four people
- Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has been fined after interrupting Russian state TV with a sign reading "no war "
- The Kremlin responds to new US sanctions on several of its defence officials by barring 13 Americans from entering Russia - including President Joe Biden
- The Czech, Polish and Slovenian PMs are meeting Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv.