Live: No ceasefire or concessions, Ukraine said, as fighting in Donbas intensifies
Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow while Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region, waging a major offensive in Luhansk.
The Russian army is attempting to seize the cities of Sloviansk and Sievierodonetsk, but Ukrainian forces held off their advance by Sunday.
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Diplomacy is the only way to end the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. His advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, however, said in an interview that there will be no ceasefire or concession to Russia.
Russia suspended its gas delivery to Finland on Saturday morning in response to the country's NATO membership bid.
Moscow will consider exchanging the Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered at the Azovstal steel mill for the previously captured pro-Putin lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk, Russian negotiator Leonid Slutsky said.
Earlier, Moscow said more than 1,900 Ukrainian fighters at the plant had surrendered.
US President Joe Biden signed a bill approving $40 billion (about €37.5bn) in military, economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
Russian Duma has said it will consider allowing Russians over 40 and foreigners over 30 to sign up for the military.
Russia is to set up 12 new military bases in the west of the country in response to Sweden and Finland's NATO bids.
The G7 is pledging $19.8 billion (€18.75 billion) in aid to boost Ukraine's finances and more than $18 billion (€17 billion) in aid for Ukrainian defence efforts.
Ukrainian forces in the separatist-controlled regions of Luhansk and Donetsk said on Saturday they had repelled nine attacks and destroyed five tanks and 10 other armoured vehicles in the previous 24 hours.
