• 6:48 a.m.: Russian gas for Finland has been cut off 

Finland's natural gas supply from Russia was cut off on Saturday, Finland's state-owned energy company Gasum said, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in roubles.

"Natural gas deliveries to Finland under Gasum's supply contract have been interrupted," the company said in a statement, adding that gas would now be supplied from other sources via the Balticconnector pipeline, which connects Finland to Estonia.

• 12:30 a.m.: Zelensky calls for the confiscation of Russian property 

Volodymyr Zelensky offered his allies a multilateral agreement to obtain compensation from Russia for the damage caused by its forces during the war.

Volodymyr Zelensky, who says Russia is trying to destroy as much infrastructure as it can in Ukraine, said such a deal would show nations planning to carry out aggressive acts against other countries that they will have to pay the price. 

According to the agreement proposed by the Ukrainian president, Russian funds and property in the signatory countries would be confiscated, they would then be directed to a special compensation fund.

• 9 p.m.: Moscow says the Azovstal factory is “liberated”

The Azovstal steelworks, in Mariupol, the last pocket of resistance in this strategic port on the Sea of ​​Azov, passed Friday evening under Russian control.

In the early evening, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson claimed that the steel complex had “passed under the complete control of the Russian armed forces” after the surrender of the last Ukrainian soldiers, and that the news had been passed on to the president. Vladimir Poutine. 

Footage released by Moscow showed cohorts of men in combat gear emerging from the steelworks, some with crutches or bandages, after a long battle that had become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion.

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