POLISH anti-war activists have voiced opposition to their government’s plans to send arms to Ukraine as Russia intensified its bombing of the latter’s capital Kiev.

Two people, including Vera Gyrych, a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were killed during Russian air strikes on Kiev that supposedly targeted a rocket factory — but took place as UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres was visiting the city in a bid to promote peace talks.

Russia announced the surrender of a British volunteer fighting with the Ukrainians in Mykolaiv region, while Ukraine said it had a plan aimed at evacuating civilians holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the port city otherwise under Russian control.