Russia-Ukraine latest news: Zelensky offers to swap Putin ally for war prisoners as Biden accuses Putin of committing ‘genocide’

The British government had added another 206 individuals to its sanctions list in response to Russia’s continued invasion of Ukraine.

The list can be found here.

Russia has been using white phosphorous bombs in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The Ukrainian president made the claim about use of chemical weapons in an address to Estonia’s parliament. He did not provide evidence and Reuters reported that it has not been able to independently verify his claim.

Video footage appears to show Russia moving military equipment towards its border with Finland.

The footage has been verified by Sky News.

It comes as Finnish PM Sanna Marin said Finland’s possible Nato membership would be discussed “within the coming weeks”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov warned on Monday that expansion of Nato would “not bring stability” to Europe.

We reported earlier that Russia’s defence ministry said 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered in the besieged city Mariupol.

But Ukraine said it has no information about the surrender reported by Russian news agency TASS.

Ukrainian defence ministry spokesperson Oleksandr Motuzyanyk has said, in response to a request for comment on the Russian report: “I don’t have information.”

One civilian was killed by Russian shelling in the Luhansk region over the past 24 hours, regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said.

Russia has denied targeting civilians since it invaded Ukraine on 24 February.

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At least seven people – including a toddler – were killed and 22 wounded by shelling in Kharkiv over the past 24 hours.

This is according to Oleh Synegubov, the governor of the region in Ukraine’s northeast.

In an online post, Mr Synegubov said a two-year-old boy was among those killed in the 53 artillery or rocket strikes he said Russian forces had carried out.

Reuters could not independently verify the information. Since the beginning of the invasion, Russia has targeting civilians.

The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia said they are heading to Kyiv to meet Volodymyr Zelensky.

Estonian president Alar Karis tweeted: “We are visiting Ukraine to show strong support to the Ukrainian people, will meet dear friend President Zelensky.”

Polish president Andrzej Duda, Lithuania’s Gitanas Nauseda, and Latvia’s Egils Levits also are on the trip.

More than 100,000 people are awaiting evacuation in Mariupol, the besieged city’s mayor Vadym Boichenko said.

It came as Ukraine’s deputy PM Iryna Vereshchuk saud no humanitarian corridors in Ukraine will be opened today.

She said the reason for no evacuations is because Russian forces had violated a ceasefire – in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine – and had blocked buses from evacuating people in Zaporizhzhia.

Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine would find all Russians involved in crimes – such as rape – against Ukrainian civilians.

The president of Ukraine, in his video message last night, said: “There is more and more evidence and other official data of the investigation about the terrible crimes of the occupiers in those areas where, unfortunately, they were able to enter.”

He contined: “About the inhuman cruelty of the Russian military towards women and children. About multiple rapes.

“Not all serial rapists reached the level of cruelty that Russian soldiers did. Of course, we will establish the full truth about all these monsters. No matter how much time and effort it would take, we will find everyone.

“And let [Viktor] Medvedchuk be a good example for you. Even the former oligarch did not escape. Let alone much simpler criminals from the Russian hinterland. We will get everyone.”

Russia’s defence ministry said that 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered in the city of Mariupol, the TASS news agency reported.