The Russian attacks on Kharkiv killed at least 11 people, Ukrainian officials said. Kyiv says more than 350 civilians, including 14 children, have been killed since the invasion began on Thursday.

The United Nations said more than half a million people have fled the country.

Earlier on Monday, the Russian army urged Ukrainians to leave Kyiv “freely” on one highway out ahead of what is an expected Russian offensive to capture the capital.

“The Russian enemy is bombing residential areas of Kharkiv, where there is no critical infrastructure, where there are no positions of the armed forces,” said Oleg Sinehubov, the governor of the region that includes Kharkiv.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned what he called “the barbaric airstrikes being carried out by Russia against innocent civilians, including children”.

Kherson city is used by Russian equipment, people are taken, prisoner said the head of the Regional State Administration Gennady Laguta.

Financial pain

Long queues for groceries snaked through the streets of Kyiv on Monday after a stringent 36-hour military curfew was lifted, and volunteer militias learned how to make homemade explosives.

“Ninety percent of Russians are going to rush to withdraw their rubles and change them into dollars, property or even gold,” predicted 51-year-old retired soldier Edward Sysoyev, who was in line to take out cash from a Moscow bank. “It’ll be ordinary people who pay for this military bun-fight.”

Putin, who put his nuclear forces on alert on Sunday, restricted foreign currency transfers outside of Russia and mandated exporters to exchange their foreign reserves for the ruble in actions to support the currency.

Many Russian banks have been shut out from the SWIFT bank system, which is used to settle international trade, and the Russian central bank has seen its foreign assets held in Western countries frozen.

The reaction from the world of sports has also been gathering steam, as Russia was banished from the World Cup and the country’s clubs and national teams suspended from all international football competitions “until further notice,” governing agencies FIFA and UEFA announced.