Russia-Ukraine updates: US sanctions Russian military shipbuilder, diamond miner

Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Russia while visiting the U.S. Holocaust Museum Monday to tour its Rohingya exhibit.

At the top of his remarks, Blinken discussed the the Russian government’s “unprovoked, brutal war on Ukraine,” including the strike that damaged the Ukrainian Holocaust memorial Babyn Yar.

He also said the Kremlin is falsely claiming to be stopping a genocide in Ukraine, “abusing the term that we reserve for the greatest atrocities, disrespecting every victim of this heinous crime.”

Blinken then pivoted to discuss atrocities elsewhere in the world including China, Ethiopia and Myanmar.

“The day will come when those responsible for these appalling acts will have to answer for them,” he said.

-ABC News’ Conor Finnegan

Pope Francis made a strong anti-war statement Monday as the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its 26th day.

In a speech in a private meeting at the Vatican with volunteer members of the I Was Thirsty organization, which promotes clean drinking water to poor areas of the world, the pope decried war and the money spent on weapons.

"Why make war on each other for conflicts that we should resolve by talking to each other as men?" he said to the audience in the Clementine Hall.

"Why not rather unite our forces and our resources to fight together the true battles of civilization: the fight against hunger and thirst; the fight against disease and epidemics; the fight against epidemics; the fight against the poverty and slavery of today?" the pope continued. "We must create the consciousness that continuing to spend on weapons dirties the soul, it dirties the heart, it dirties humanity."

It comes just one day after Pope Francis denounced the “repugnant" war against Ukraine as “cruel and sacrilegious inhumanity" during a noontime prayer in St. Peter's Square, although he stopped short of naming Russia as the aggressor.

-ABC News’ Phoebe Natanson

An ammonia leak has been reported at a chemical plant in the northeastern city of Sumy, the regional governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyy said Monday.

On his official Telegram channel, Zhyvytskyy said the leak was caused by Russian shelling.

He warned those within a 3-mile radius of the Sumykhimprom plant should leave the area because the gas is hazardous but that workers have contained the leak.

Zhyvytskyy said, so far, just one injury has been reported among employees of the plant.

-ABC News’ Joseph Simonetti

More than 3.4 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded, according to the latest figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Monday's update showed that, of those refugees, more than 2 million have crossed the border into Poland. Additionally, about 535,000 have entered Romania and 365,000 have crossed into Moldova.

Refugees are also going to Hungary, Slovakia, Russia and Belarus.

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi tweeted Sunday that since the Russian invasion, 10 million people in Ukraine fled, either displaced in the country or as refugees abroad.

"Among the responsibilities of those who wage war, everywhere in the world, is the suffering inflicted on civilians who are forced to flee their homes," he wrote.

UNICEF told ABC News that half of the internally displaced Ukrainians and half of those who have fled are children.

-ABC News' Zoe Magee