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The United Nations has admitted that some non-Europeans refugees have faced racism while trying to flee to safety at Ukraine borders.

A ransomware cabal that pledged support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been hacked.

US veterans responding to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s calls to help Ukraine in its fight against Russia have told The Independent that their attempts to join the resistance are being held up by red tape.

Speaking to Rachel Sharp, US veterans say that they feel it is their “duty as Americans” to fight in Ukraine.

A second round of talks between Russian and Ukraine has been scheduled for tomorrow, a Russian source has reportedly told the Russian state news agency Tass.

A misinformation campaign is trying to trick people into using less secure messaging apps, Signal has said.

Signal is a chat app that is known in large part for protecting messages as they are sent between users, using a technology known as end-to-end encryption, writes Andrew Griffin.

Dozens of diplomats staged a mass walkout of the UN Human Rights Council during the speech of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

The speech, which was played via video link, was labelled as “full of disinformation” by UK foreign secretary Liz Truss.

“Russia is isolated and should be ashamed to sit in the UN chamber,” she said.

Sergiy Kyslytsa, Ukraine’s permanent representative, said he would rather listen to Russia at an international tribunal for war crimes.

“Enough of exposure to the deranged lunacy of war criminals,” he said.

Boris Johnson has said his government will set up a scheme allowing British people and companies to sponsor Ukrainian refugees to come to the UK, writes Adam Forrest.

Mr Johnson said more would be done to welcome Ukrainians – claiming around 200,000 would soon be eligible to come to the UK.

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has told French ministers to “watch your tongue” after finance minister Bruno Le Maire said that France would bring about the collapse of the Russian economy.

Mr Medvedev tweeted: “Today, some French minister has said that they declared an economic war on Russia. Watch your tongue, gentlemen! And don’t forget that in human history, economic wars quite often turned into real ones.”

Earlier, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said that the west was using sanctions to wage “total economic and financial war against Russia, Putin and his government.”

The UK Treasury froze the assets of four army major generals today for assisting in the destabilisation and Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Andrei Burdyko, Victor Gulevich, Sergei Simonenko and Andrey Zhuk are subject to an asset freeze, the British government announced, under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.

The men had been “involved in destabilising Ukraine or undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine, or obtaining a benefit from or supporting the Government of Russia,” a Treasury document states.

Two Belarusian defence companies – JSC 558 Aircraft Repair Plant, and JSC Integral – also had assets frozen by the UK.

Joint Russian-Belarusian military drills had taken place in Belarus, a close ally of Russia, earlier this month before Vladimir Putin launched the invasion of Ukraine.

British business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed a decision by Jaguar Land Rover to “pause” the delivery of vehicles to Russia.

He said: “There is now a rapidly growing number of companies and governments joining the whole international community in isolating Russia, both diplomatically and financially.”

Jaguar Land Rover, which has its HQ and plants in the Midlands, sold about 6,900 vehicles to Russia last year.

It is thought sanctions imposed by the UK, the EU and the US are making it difficult for the British firm to sell cars to Russia.

A spokesperson said in a statement that the firm’s priority was “the wellbeing of our entire workforce and their families, as well as those within our extended network”.

The statement adds: “The current global context also presents us with trading challenges, so we are pausing the delivery of vehicles into the Russian market and continually monitoring the situation on behalf of our global customer base.”