BBC –
- Russia says it will give Ukrainian fighters holed up in a chemical plant in the encircled city of Severodonetsk a chance to surrender
- And a humanitarian corridor to evacuate some of the hundreds of civilians trapped with them will be opened on Wednesday
- Civilians will be transported to the separatist region of Luhansk, the Russian army says
- In the UK, the foreign secretary says she will do “whatever necessary” to free two Britons sentenced to death after fighting in Ukraine
