Russia-Ukraine live news: Ukraine urges China to condemn Russia

• Ukraine calls on China to condemn “Russian barbarism”, support “civilised countries’ coalition”.
• Poland PM calls for total trade ban between the EU and Russia.
• Russia says it used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine.
• Biden did not offer incentives to Xi in video call between two leaders, White House says.
• Ukraine says over 9,100 people evacuated from Ukraine through humanitarian corridors on Friday.
• More than half left the besieged city of Mariupol.
• UN says 6.5 million people internally displaced due to the war.

Here are the latest updates:

3 mins ago (18:47 GMT)

Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help

Russian forces have pushed deeper into Ukraine’s besieged and battered port city of Mariupol where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more help.

The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war’s worst suffering, would mark a crucial battlefield advance for the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside key cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II.

Read more here.

40 mins ago (18:10 GMT)

Scores feared dead in Mykolaiv barracks attack

Scores of people are feared dead following a Russian airstrike on Friday that hit an army barrack housing about 200 soldiers in the southern city of Mykolaiv, Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi reported from Lviv.

“That airstrike resulted in dozens of soldiers who were sleeping in these barracks [to die], as many as 50 according to some eyewitnesses’ accounts. We also hear reports that that number is as high as 100 as rescue efforts are underway,” Basravi said.

“The state of the remains of so many people who were at the barracks at the time are such that is making it difficult to have an accurate account of exactly how many people were killed or injured in that strike,” Basravi reported, citing an eye witness on the ground. “That gives you an idea on how grim the situation on the ground is.”

1 hour ago (17:49 GMT)

Ukrainian refugees in Poland unsure of future

Monika Matus, an activist with human rights organisation Grupa Granica, told Al Jazeera refugees from Ukraine in Poland have little idea about their future, and where they will eventually end up.

“The big cities are at the moment absolutely overstretched in terms of resources … in terms of places to sleep … providing food,” she said from Hajnowka.

“Most of these people are actually in private homes, where Poles were really kind enough to take them. But we basically know that this is not going to last,” Matus added.

“These kinds of arrangements are really temporary. Most of these people don’t know what’s going to happen and you know, where are they going to go. We are also quite sure that not all of them will be able to actually get their work in Poland … to be able to send children to school in Poland.”

1 hour ago (17:33 GMT)

India, Japan leaders call for end to violence

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi have called for an immediate halt to the violence in Ukraine following the Russian invasion.

In a joint statement issued after the summit-level talks in New Delhi, Kishida and Modi underlined the importance of safety and security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine and pledged to take steps to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country.

2 hours ago (16:47 GMT)

Russian invasion shut down 30 percent of Ukraine’s economy: Minister

The Russian invasion has forced 30 percent of Ukraine’s economy to stop working, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko  has said in a televised interview.

“Our tax revenues do not allow us to cover our needs, (therefore) the main revenue stream is borrowing,” Marchenko said.

2 hours ago (16:26 GMT)

Russia: Ukrainian mines in Black Sea

Russia has warned that mines that Ukrainians had deployed in the Black Sea against its “military operation” could drift as far as the Straits of Bosphrous and the Mediterranean Sea.

“After the start of the Russian special military operation, Ukrainian naval forces had deployed barriers of mines around the ports of Odessa, Ochakov, Chernomorsk and Yuzhny,” the FSB security service said in a statement, adding that the mines were “dilapidated” and made in the first half of the 20th century.

Storms have cut cables to some of those mines that are now floating freely in the western Black Sea, pushed along by wind and the currents, it said.

3 hours ago (15:59 GMT)

Use of hypersonic weapons warning to NATO: Correspondent

Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari reporting from Moscow said the use hypersonic weapons by Russia was “significant” and a warning to NATO countries.

“This is yet another very significant and dangerous reminder that this country is willing to use whatever it has militarily to achieve its goals there in Ukraine.”

Read more here.

3 hours ago (15:53 GMT)

Ukraine has evacuated 190,000 civilians from battle zones: Deputy PM

Ukraine has evacuated 190,000 civilians from frontline areas via humanitarian corridors since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a televised interview.

She said corridors in the Kyiv and Luhansk regions were functioning on Saturday, but a planned corridor to the besieged eastern port city of Mariupol was only partially operational, with buses not being allowed through by Russian troops.

3 hours ago (15:38 GMT)

Ukraine calls on China to ‘condemn Russian barbarism’

Ukraine has urged China to join the West in condemning “Russian barbarism”, after the US warned Beijing of consequences if it backed Moscow’s attack on the country.

“China can be the global security system’s important element if it makes a right decision to support the civilised countries’ coalition and condemn Russian barbarism,” presidential aide Mikhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.