Russia offered the ultimatum Sunday: Surrender Mariupol — where hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in abject conditions — by morning, and Russian troops would let civilians leave and humanitarian aid enter. Ukrainian officials refused. In the capital, Kyiv, Russian strikes destroyed a shopping center, killing more civilians.
Here's what else we're following today:
President Biden travels to Poland on Friday: Biden will join NATO and G-7 leaders in Brussels this week before heading to Warsaw for a meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
The last European Union diplomat in Mariupol leaves: Greek Consul General Manolis Androulakis had stayed in the besieged city to help ethnic Greek families evacuate.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Ukrainian member of parliament Lesia Vasylenko about the war, and the critical situation in the besieged city of Mariupol.
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