Cabinet minister Michael Gove said the government wants to “explore an option” of using sanctioned oligarchs’ mansion homes in Britain to house refugees from Ukraine.

However, the leveling up minister granted there would be a “high legal bar to cross” in using frozen assets – and suggested it could only house refugees temporarily.

Asked about reports in the Daily Mail that he wants to “seize” mansions and use them to accommodate people fleeing the war, Mr Gove told the BBC: “There’s quite a high legal bar to cross and we’re not talking about permanent confiscation.”

My colleague adam forrest reports:

The Indian government today announced it has decided to temporarily relocate its embassy in Ukraine across the border to Poland.

Its ministry of external affairs said the decision to move the embassy from Kyiv came in view of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Ukraine.

It added: “The situation will be reassessed in the light of further developments.”

Vladimir Putin is “out of control” and has committed war crimes with his invasion of Ukraine, said cabinet minister Michael Gove – who said the UK government was concerned about Russia’s nuclear threat.

Mr Gove said he does not think it is helpful to think of Russian president as “mad” – but said he was operating in a “moral sphere the rest of us would find almost impossible to conceive of”.

Asked whether the possibility that the Putin regime could use nuclear weapons was a real concern for the UK government, the senior minister says: “Yes.”

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Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that there was no damage to the mosque in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol following reports it was shelled yesterday by Russian forces.

He hoped progress could be made on evacuating Turks stuck in the mosque and sought help from his Russian counterpart on the issue.

Ukraine’s foreign ministry yesterday said that Putin’s forces had shelled the mosque, where more than 80 adults and children, including Turkish citizens, had taken refuge.

At least 35 people have been killed and a further 134 injured following an airstrike launched on a Ukrainian military base in the west of the country 35km (22 miles) from the Polish border, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy said in an updated statement.

Refugees continue to arrive in Poland in the hunt for food and shelter more than two weeks after Russia launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine.

Hundreds of thousands of children are among two million refugees who have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries.

The Ukrainian government-enforced martial law, banning all-male citizens 18-60 years old from leaving the country.

A total of 85 children have been killed and a further 100 wounded since Russia invaded its neighbor on 24 February, the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general said.

It added that bombings and shelling have damaged 369 educational facilities in the country, 57 of which have been “completely destroyed.”