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

The U.S. will be sending an additional $100 million in Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. The weapons will be coming from existing military stockpiles.

The White House later released a memorandum from President Joe Biden saying he would be using drawdown powers to release "an aggregate value of $100 million in defense articles and services of the Department of Defense, and military education and training, to provide assistance to Ukraine."

Pentagon officials have said anti-tank weapons provided by the U.S. and other partner countries have been very successful in staving off Russian troops and bogging down vehicle movement.

-ABC News' Justin Gomez

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflected on his meeting with the United Nations Security Council in his daily speech Tuesday.

Zelenskyy said the council is "currently unable to carry out the functions for which it was created."

"The U.N. Security Council exists, and security in the world doesn’t, for anyone," he said. "And only one state is to blame for this, Russia, which discredits the U.N. and all other international institutions where it still participates."

Zelenskyy added that Russia "tries to block everything constructive and use global architecture in order to spread lies and justify the evil it does."

"I'm sure the world sees it. I hope the world will draw conclusions," he said.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

Nearly 1,500 people were evacuated from the heavily bombed southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol in private cars on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said.

The evacuees left Mariupol in private vehicles because evacuation buses and humanitarian cargo could not make it into the city, officials said.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said that in addition to the evacuees in Mariupol, another 3,846 people evacuated from other towns across the country, including 1,080 from the Luhansk separatist area of eastern Ukraine.

The evacuation came as Igor Konashenkov, a spokesperson for the Russian Ministry of Defense, said on Tuesday that Mariupol would be "liberated from nationalists" by Russian forces, according to the Russian state-run TASS news service.

Konashenkov also said Moscow has repeatedly offered Ukrainian troops in Kyiv a chance to lay down their arms and that the offer was extended again on Tuesday morning.

"However, these proposals are constantly ignored by the Kyiv regime," Konashenkov said, according to TASS.

France on Tuesday offered to send a forensics team to Ukraine to collect evidence for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces.

French President Emmanuel Macron made the offer during a phone conversation Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a readout made public by the Elysee Palace, the French leader's official residence. Macron also offered to contribute $534,000 to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to assist in its investigation into war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Macron also offered to dispatch French personnel, including two magistrates and 10 police officers, to help in the investigation.

During the call, Macron conveyed to Zelenskyy the "shock and emotion" caused in France by images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha, near the capital of Kyiv.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou