Russia-Ukraine updates: US sanctions Russian military shipbuilder, diamond miner

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has allocated $40 million "to ramp up aid agencies' efforts to reach the most vulnerable people," it announced in a press release Monday.

"These funds are critical to get operations off the ground immediately," U.N. OCHA chief Martin Griffiths said in a statement. "In the early days of our response, fast and flexible funding can make all the difference."

The U.N. is also deploying staff to get food and medicines closer to those in need, according to the release.

Griffiths described Mariupol, the eastern city being heavily bombed by Russia with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped inside, as the "center of hell" in an interview with CNN on Monday.

"The most important priority … is to get civilians out," Griffiths said.

-ABC News' Matt Foster

The International Court of Justice will soon issue a ruling on allegations brought against Russia by Ukraine.

Ukraine had launched a case against Russia at the United Nations' highest court, located in Hague, The Netherlands, accusing Moscow of planning genocide.

Ukraine also asked the court to intervene to halt the invasion and to order Russia to pay reparations.

The court will deliver the ruling at 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday, the U.N. announced in a press release.

-ABC News' Matt Foster

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Monday defended the company’s decision to continue supplying medicine to Russia, saying “patients first.”

The pharmaceutical company announced Monday that it would donate all profits from sales in Russia to Ukraine. Despite the hefty sanctions placed on Russia by countries around the world, Bourla said at the South by Southwest film festival in Austin that a humanitarian exemption to continue operations in Russia applies.

“Always with sanctions, medicines are excluded,” he said, citing other previous instances, including Iran. “We debated a lot what needs to be done, and we felt it’s so foundational in our principles that patients should come first that we cannot stop the flow of our medicines to Russia.”

Bourla emphasized that medicine is not comparable to goods such as the latest smartphone, saying that treatments for conditions such as lung and metastatic breast cancer “can’t stop.”

However, Pfizer is not "continuing business as usual" in Russia, Bourla said.

“Though we will maintain the flow of the medicines, we will not make money out of it -- all the profits of the Russian subsidiary going forward effective immediately will be donated to causes to alleviate the pain that the invasion is causing to Ukrainians.”

-ABC News' Sasha Pezenik

Fox News State Department correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured while newsgathering near Kyiv on Monday, according to Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media.

The circumstances were not immediately clear but Scott said Hall was hospitalized.

"Please keep Ben and his family in your prayers," Scott said in a statement.

Shaun Tandon, president of the State Department Correspondents’ Association, said in a statement, "We know Ben for his warmth, good humor and utmost professionalism. We wish Ben a quick recovery and call for utmost efforts to protect journalists who are providing an invaluable service through their coverage in Ukraine.”