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

The Kremlin says Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call with Germany’s leader Olaf Scholz accused Ukraine of “seeking to drag out” negotiations with Russia to end the war by putting forward “new unrealistic proposals."

Putin told Scholz Russia was “nonetheless ready to continue the search for a solution within the bounds of its well-known principled approaches,” the Kremlin said in a readout of the call.

It’s a negative sign for the ongoing talks with Ukraine that both sides have suggested have made some progress this week.

-ABC News' Patrick Reevell

Russian missiles have hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for the first time Friday, a key location that had been spared from the assault until now.

The missiles struck the area around the city's airport, according to the mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, around 6:30 a.m. local time, hitting an aircraft repair facility and destroying the building.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack, according to the mayor.

Preliminary data indicated that six cruise missiles were fired from the Black Sea, according to the country's western military command. Two were destroyed by anti-aircraft missile systems.

-ABC News' Martha Raddatz

The Biden administration is "focused" on ways to help Ukrainian refugees, as the number of people displaced by the war continues to grow, according to U.S. officials.

More than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since Russia's invasion began, according to the United Nations' refugee agency, in Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II.

"As the numbers increase, as the burden increases for European partners, we will certainly do everything we can to help," Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters Thursday, adding it was "something we're very focused on right now."

Without offering specifics, Blinken confirmed the administration is "looking at things that we can do ourselves and do directly -- for example, looking at steps we may be able to take on family reunification and other things."

One limited option is fast-tracking the process to admit refugees to the U.S. itself, which is defined by law and requires a referral from the U.N.'s refugee agency and thorough vetting. A senior administration official told ABC News that the refugee program "is not an emergency response program, so our goal would be to provide humanitarian assistance to keep people safe where they are for now."

As Blinken told reporters, the referral process to be granted refugee status "takes time." Refugee resettlement is a yearslong process, and there are already 7,000 Ukrainian refugees in the pipeline, according to resettlement agency Church World Service.

The senior administration official also said U.S. embassies and consulates in the region are processing emergency visa applications, but that they are overwhelmed. "We are not able to process the volume of the people who are thinking about that as an option," the official said.

Refugee resettlement agencies say the administration is considering using the Lautenberg program, which allows religious minorities -- including Ukrainian Greek Catholics and Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Christians -- to bring family members to the U.S. with a potentially expedited refugee status. One agency told ABC News there are thousands of Ukrainian applicants who the U.S. could swiftly admit.

The administration has already approved temporary protected status for any Ukrainians in the U.S. before March 1 -- allowing them to stay and work in the U.S. for at least the next 18 months.

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson, Sarah Kolinovsky and Conor Finnegan

State Department spokesperson Ned Price called on Russia to provide consular access to WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner in an interview with ABC News Live Prime anchor Linsey Davis on Thursday.

In the weeks since her detention, U.S. officials from the embassy in Moscow have been unable to meet with her and "evaluate the conditions, her conditions, the conditions in which she is being detained and to provide all forms of support," Price said.

"The Russians are obligated to permit, to allow this type of consular access," Price added. "We're going to continue to insist that they allow us access to Brittney Griner just as we be permitted to access all Americans who are detained in Russia."

Another State Department spokesperson confirmed to ABC News that Griner is in pretrial detention, and that Russia must provide consular access in those circumstances.

The State Department has been "in constant contact" with Griner's legal team and the WNBA, Price said.

Griner, who plays for the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury as well as in Russia, was arrested last month at a Moscow airport after Russian authorities said they found vape cartridges in her luggage.

Her detention has been extended to May 19, the Russian news agency TASS reported Thursday.

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan and Tanya Stukalova