* A column of more than 100 civilians evacuated from the Mariupol steel plant this weekend arrived in Zaporizhia on Tuesday. According to the UN, these are 101 civilians who have been inside the Azovstal factory for several weeks. The column also includes 26 civilians from the area near the factory. The evacuation was organized by the United Nations and the Red Cross.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said there were still hundreds of civilians in the bunker at the factory, which is being attacked by Russian forces every day.

* On Tuesday, the Russian military will again attack the steel factory in Mariupol with artillery and planes, according to the Ria news agency. Moscow’s Defense Ministry said troops from the Russian army and from Russia’s so-called Donetsk People’s Republic had begun destroying the positions of Ukrainian troops.

Deputy Commander Svyatoslav Palamar of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion confirmed the information.

* Russian President Vladimir Putin had asked the West to stop supplying Ukraine with weapons when he spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron by phone on Tuesday. He also accused Ukraine of not taking talks to end the conflict seriously, according to a statement from the Kremlin.

According to the French presidential office, Macron repeated his call for Putin to end the war in Ukraine and agree to a ceasefire and peace talks.

* The National Assembly of Ukraine has passed a law prohibiting political parties to justify, acknowledge or deny Russia’s war against Ukraine.

The law also prohibits parties to glorify or justify the actions of those carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported.

330 of the 450 representatives in the National Assembly voted in favor of the bill, said Olena Sjuljak of President Volodymyr Zelenskyj’s party Servants of the People.

* An additional £300 million was pledged for military support to Ukraine by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. The promise came as Johnson spoke digitally to Ukraine’s parliament in Kyiv on Tuesday.

“This is Ukraine’s greatest time, one that future generations will remember and retell,” Johnson said, referring to a speech given by Winston Churchill in 1940.

Britain also sent 13 armored vehicles to be used to evacuate civilians and transport Ukrainians.

* Children’s author Astrid Lindgren is one of several Swedes who appear to have been singled out as Nazis in posters posted at bus stops around Moscow.

– We are against Nazism, but they are not, says the advertising poster posted outside the Swedish embassy in Moscow.

Quotes by Lindgren, director Ingmar Bergman, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad and the late King Gustav VI Adolf are pasted on the poster. It shines through the claim that they are Nazis.

* Russian authorities are escalating a war of words with Israel, saying it supports neo-Nazis in Ukraine.

Russia has justified the war by claiming that the regime in Kyiv is Nazi. This is not true, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself has a Jewish background. Polls show that right-wing extremist parties receive little support in Ukraine.

* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said in his daily video address that Russia had forgotten everything it learned from World War II. The remarks were a reaction to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who on Sunday claimed, among other things, that Adolf Hitler had a Jewish background. Lavrov has been condemned by Israel, Ukraine and the United States following the allegations.

* Russia has taken complete control of the internet in Ukraine’s Kherson region, with accompanying consequences, such as regulation of Russian networks, surveillance and censorship, according to the London-based service NetBlocks, which monitors internet connections around the world.

Russia plans to annex the two eastern Ukrainian territories of Donetsk and Luhansk soon, according to Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).