Zelenskiy urges civilians to leave Donetsk as city of Bakhmut comes under attack – as it happened

Hundreds of thousands must evacuate Donetsk' to avoid falling into enemy hands, says Ukrainian president

Russia has said it has invited United Nations and Red Cross experts to investigate the deaths of dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Moscow-backed separatists, Reuters reports.

At least 50 prisoners of war were killed in an attack on a jail in Olenivka, in Russian-occupied Donetsk, on Friday. Both sides in the war have blamed the blast on each other.