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

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ByMorgan Winsor, Emily Shapiro, Nadine El-Bawab, Ivan Pereira, Julia Jacobo, Meredith Deliso, Bill Hutchinson, Kevin Shalvey, Celia Darrough, Mary Kekatos, and Samara Lynn
Last Updated: April 5, 2022, 9:26 PM EDT

Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation” into Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with troops crossing the border from Belarus and Russia. Moscow's forces have since been met with “stiff resistance” from Ukrainians, according to U.S. officials.

Russian forces retreated last week from the Kyiv suburbs, leaving behind a trail of destruction. After graphic images emerged of civilians lying dead in the streets of Bucha, U.S. and European officials accused Russian troops of committing war crimes.

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Apr 05, 2022, 9:26 PM EDT

US sending $100M in new anti-tank missiles

The U.S. will be sending an additional $100 million in Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. The weapons will be coming from existing military stockpiles.

The White House later released a memorandum from President Joe Biden saying he would be using drawdown powers to release "an aggregate value of $100 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, to provide assistance to Ukraine."

A serviceman of Ukrainian military forces holds a FGM-148 Javelin, an American-made portable anti-tank missile, at a checkpoint, where they hold a position near Kharkiv on March 23, 2022.
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Pentagon officials have said anti-tank weapons provided by the U.S. and other partner countries have been very successful in staving off Russian troops and bogging down vehicle movement.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

Apr 05, 2022, 7:19 PM EDT

Zelenskyy questions UN Security Council's effectiveness

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflected on his meeting with the United Nations Security Council in his daily speech Tuesday.

Zelenskyy said the council is "currently unable to carry out the functions for which it was created."

"The U.N. Security Council exists, and security in the world doesn’t, for anyone," he said. "And only one state is to blame for this, Russia, which discredits the U.N. and all other international institutions where it still participates."

Zelenskyy added that Russia "tries to block everything constructive and use global architecture in order to spread lies and justify the evil it does."

"I'm sure the world sees it. I hope the world will draw conclusions," he said.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

Apr 05, 2022, 5:06 PM EDT

1,500 people evacuated from heavily bombed Mariupol

Nearly 1,500 people were evacuated from the heavily bombed southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol in private cars on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said.

The evacuees left Mariupol in private vehicles because evacuation buses and humanitarian cargo could not make it into the city, officials said.

The facade of the Mariupol theater stands damaged folling shelling during Russia's invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
Alexei Alexandrov/AP

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that in addition to the evacuees in Mariupol, another 3,846 people evacuated from other towns across the country, including 1,080 from the Luhansk separatist area of eastern Ukraine.

The evacuation came as Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Defense, said on Tuesday that Mariupol would be "liberated from nationalists" by Russian forces, according to the Russian state-run TASS news service.

Damaged staircases stand inside the Mariupol theater which was damaged during shelling during Russia's invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, 2022.
Alexei Alexandrov/AP

Konashenkov also said Moscow has repeatedly offered Ukrainian troops in Kyiv a chance to lay down their arms and that the offer was extended again on Tuesday morning.

"However, these proposals are constantly ignored by the Kyiv regime," Konashenkov said, according to TASS.

Apr 05, 2022, 4:26 PM EDT

France offers to send war crimes forensics team to Ukraine

France on Tuesday offered to send a forensics team to Ukraine to collect evidence for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron made the offer during a phone conversation Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a readout made public by the Elysee Palace, the French leader's official residence. Macron also offered to contribute $534,000 to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to assist in its investigation into war crimes committed in Ukraine.

PHOTO: Volunteers unload bags containing bodies of civilians, who according to residents were killed by Russian army soldiers, after they collected them from the streets in Bucha, Ukraine April 4, 2022.
Volunteers unload bags containing bodies of civilians, who according to residents were killed by Russian army soldiers, after they collected them from the streets to gather them at a cemetery before taking them to the morgue, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, Ukraine April 4, 2022.
Zohra Bensemra/Reuters

Macron also offered to dispatch French personnel, including two magistrates and 10 police officers, to help in the investigation.

During the call, Macron conveyed to Zelenskyy the "shock and emotion" caused in France by images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha, near the capital of Kyiv.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

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