Russia's invasion of Ukraine, live updates: UK calls Putin a war criminal; Russia wants to ‘erase’ Ukraine: Zelensky

Boris Johnson says Russia's use 'of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians' in Ukraine 'fully qualifies as a war crime'.

A member of the Ukrainian community holds a banner depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin during a demonstartion against the Russian invasion in Ukraine, outside the Russian Embassy in Mexico. Picture: AFP

Welcome to our coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has branded Vladimir Putin a war criminal, saying Russia's use 'of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians' in Ukraine 'fully qualifies as a war crime'. It came as he urged UN unanimity to condemn Putin's  invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a missile strike at the site of a Holocaust massacre shows that 'for many people in Russia our Kyiv is completely foreign', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says. Both leaders' comments came as Putin continued his assault on major Ukraine population centres, with five killed, and another five wounded in a missile strike on Kyiv's main TV tower. An  earlier attack on Kharkiv's Freedom Square, in which seven people were killed, has been described by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as “open, undisguised terrorism”. Here is how the rest of the day played out on day seven of the invasion: