The Latest Breaking News from Mariupol

Celebrities including Trigger Point actor Adrian Lester, Game Of Thrones star Kit Harington and Doctor Who star David Tennant have been involved in highlighting the appeal.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it understood that evacuations of civilians from Mariupol and Volnovakha in Ukraine would not start on Saturday because of the conflict following Russia's invasion.

‘It’s not safe to go by this road because of these fights,’ deputy mayor says

The southern city of Kherson has seen an outbreak of protests against Russian troops

The deputy mayor of Mariupol, a port city in the south of Ukraine, has said Russians have not kept to an agreed ceasefire designed to allow citizens to flee the bombarded settlement

As Russia’s war on Ukraine entered Day 10, a planned cease-fire was violated in port of Mariupol and citizens were told not to evacuate. And Russian President Vladimir Putin likened Western sanctions imposed against Russia as “akin to a declaration of war” which may result in Ukraine "losing its statehood."

This is ‘the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II’, says UN chief

The Russian defence ministry said in a statement it has agreed on evacuation routes with Ukrainian forces to allow civilians to leave Mariupol and Volnovakha.

Russia declared a partial ceasefire to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia's defence ministry said.