Russian forces have seized Kherson in southern Ukraine, the city's mayor has said, as he issued a desperate appeal for food and medicine to be allowed in.
Igor Kolykhaiev, who also appealed to Russia for permission to transport the dead and wounded out from the port city, said on Facebook: "Without all this, the city will die." It would make it the first, and biggest, city to fall yet in the invasion.
The development came as the UN refugee agency said one million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion, in the swiftest exodus of refugees this century.
Mr Kolykhaiev said Vladimir Putin's soldiers had forced their way into the city council building and enforced a curfew on residents.
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