In southern Ukraine, Russia’s military has reportedly launched a ground assault on the last holdout of Ukrainian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol. New video shows explosions at the vast Azovstal steelworks plant, where Ukrainian fighters say some 200 civilians remain sheltered from the fighting. The U.N. says it has dispatched another convoy to Mariupol in its latest effort to evacuate more civilians. 

Meanwhile, Israeli officials say Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Russia’s foreign minister claimed that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood. Sergey Lavrov’s comments set off outrage in Israel, which has nonetheless declined to join U.S.- and European-led sanctions against Russia.