Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
Russia says it has used hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine to destroy a weapons storage site in the west of the country.
Russia's defence ministry says it used the technology to strike an underground arms depot in the village of Deliatyn, around 100 kilometres from Ukraine's border with Romania.Russia says that its forces have broken through the defences of the besieged southern port of Mariupol and are now inside the war-torn city.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says that 130 people have been saved but that "hundreds" are still trapped in rubble after Wednesday's strike on the theatre, where people were sheltering from the Russian shelling.Zelensky calls for urgent talks with Russia, saying in a Facebook video they are the "only chance for Russia to minimise the damage done with their own mistakes".
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