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

Russian missiles destroyed fuel storage facilities in five cities across Ukraine on Wednesday morning, Russia’s Ministry of Defense said.

"On the morning of April 6, high-precision air- and ground-based missiles destroyed 5 fuel storage bases near Radekhov, Kazatin, Prosyanaya, Nikolaev and Novomoskovsk,” the ministry claimed in its morning briefing. “These facilities have been used to supply fuel to Ukrainian military formations in Kharkov, Nikolaev and Donbass areas.”

European Union leaders said Wednesday they were preparing a new round of economic sanctions against Russia, as outrage grew over civilian deaths in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

"We have all seen the haunting images of Bucha. This is what is happening when Putin's soldiers occupy Ukrainian territory," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said. "They call this liberation. I call this war crimes. The Russian authorities will have to answer for them."

The sanctions to be proposed may include a ban on importing Russian coal, bans on transactions with four Russian banks, and a ban on Russian ships at EU ports, among other measures.

The fifth round of sanctions "will not be our last," von der Leyen said. U.S. officials are also expected to announce new sanctions on Wednesday, sources told ABC News.

Russian forces are continuing their airstrikes in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense.

"The humanitarian situation in the city is worsening," the ministry said Wednesday in an intelligence update. "Most of the 160,000 remaining residents have no light, communication, medicine, heat or water."

Russian troops have prevented humanitarian access to the southern city, a move the ministry said was as part of a strategy to pressure Ukraine to surrender.

In an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday night, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the United States could not remove Russia from the U.N.'s most powerful body, the Security Council.

"They are a member of the Security Council. That's a fact. We can't change that fact, but we certainly can isolate them in the Security Council," Thomas-Greenfield told MSNBC.

That's separate from the push to remove Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council, which Thomas-Greenfield told NPR they hope to bring to the U.N. General Assembly for a vote as soon as Thursday.

"I know we're going to get" the necessary two-thirds majority, she told CNN.

Thomas-Greenfield also described what it was like in the room on Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's graphic video finally played for the U.N. Security Council. She told MSNBC it was the first time she saw the uncensored video of the war's victims.

"We were all speechless. We had all seen various videos showing atrocities. But they all covered up the real, you know, the real people that were there - they were all blurred," Thomas-Greenfield said. "This was the first time I've seen that video without the bodies being blurred. And it was horrific. And there was silence in the room. I can tell you that people were horrified."

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan