Russia-Ukraine updates: US to ban Russian carriers from its airspace

Hours before the physical invasion into Ukraine, Microsoft detected a new round of "offensive and destructive" cyberattacks directed at the Ukrainian government, a top Microsoft official announced.

"In recent days, we have provided threat intelligence and defensive suggestions to Ukrainian officials regarding attacks on a range of targets, including Ukrainian military institutions and manufacturers and several other Ukrainian government agencies," President and Vice Chair of Microsoft Brad Smith wrote in a blog post Monday. "This work is ongoing."

Microsoft remains concerned about the cyber threat emanating from Ukraine, "especially" recent cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian digital targets, including on the financial sector, agriculture sector, emergency response services, humanitarian aid efforts and energy sector organizations, Smith said.

"These attacks on civilian targets raise serious concerns under the Geneva Convention, and we have shared information with the Ukrainian government about each of them," he wrote.

Microsoft has advised the Ukrainian government about recent cyber efforts to steal a wide range of data, including health, insurance and transportation-related personally identifiable information, as well as other government data sets, Smith said. Microsoft is also sharing information with U.S. officials.

Over the weekend, the U.S. warned that a cyberattack in Ukraine could have ripple effects in the U.S.

"Further disruptive cyberattacks against organizations in Ukraine are likely to occur and may unintentionally spill over to organizations in other countries," the FBI, DHS and CISA warned in a statement, saying Russia has taken these steps in the past. "Organizations should increase vigilance and evaluate their capabilities encompassing planning, preparation, detection, and response for such an event."

Microsoft is "swiftly" removing Russian propaganda from their websites from the Windows app store, including RT, the Russian state-controlled international television network.

"We are also focused as a company in protecting against state-sponsored disinformation campaigns, which have long been commonplace in times of war," Smith wrote.

This comes as Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced efforts it was taking to disrupt social media misinformation campaigns.

-ABC News’ Luke Barr and Cindy Smith

In an extraordinary emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly -- only the 11th in the body’s history -- representatives from Ukraine and Russia delivered fiery back-to-back remarks.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergiy Kyslytsya compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hilter.

“This war was not provoked. It was chosen by someone who is right now sitting in the bunker. We know what happened with the person who sat in the bunker in Berlin in May 1945," he said.

Kyslytsya accused Russia of carrying out war crimes, saying Russians "keep attacking kindergartens and orphanages, thus committing war crimes and violating the Rome Statute. Hospitals and mobile medical aid brigades are also targeted by the Russian shelling and sabotage groups working in Ukraine cities and towns.”

He concluded with an appeal for support, stressing that it was not just Ukraine at stake.

“If Ukraine does not survive, international peace will not survive," he said.

Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya denied the veracity of many of Kyslytsya’s claims, saying instead of discussing the roots of the “disinformation,” he wished to focus on the “real reasons for the crisis,” saying the fault lies with Ukraine itself. He cited baseless Kremlin-peddled claims that the country was carrying out a brutal attack on the people of the Donbas region and accused Western powers of turning “a blind eye."

Nebenzya also attempted to shift blame to the West.

“Our Western colleagues have shamelessly inundated the country with weapons, have sent to the country instructors, and effectively incited Ukrainians who are facing a 120,000-strong military contingent, and prompted them to engage in armed provocation again the Donbas,” he said.

This phase of debate on a resolution condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine has now concluded and the General Assembly is expected to vote on the resolution later on Monday.

-ABC News' Shannon Crawford

France’s embassy in Ukraine will be moved from the capital, Kyiv, to Lviv, near the Polish border, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in a live interview on BFMTV.

Le Drian said, “I'm not sure President Putin imagined his operation was going to be so difficult."

He added, “Vladimir Putin has lost the communication battle” and that while “Putin wanted to divide us," "he has achieved the opposite."

The U.S. is suspending operations at the embassy in Belarus, where just half a dozen U.S. diplomats had been based, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced.

The U.S. is also drawing down its embassy in Moscow, authorizing the departure of non-emergency staff and diplomats' families, Blinken said in a statement.

He didn't cite any specific threat but said the department took these steps "due to security and safety issues stemming from the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces in Ukraine."

The U.S. special envoy for Belarus tweeted a photo showing two American diplomats taking down the flag at the embassy in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.

"Belarus' complicity in Russia's war against Ukraine has shown the regime's loss of sovereign decision-making," Ambassador Julie Fisher tweeted.

Fisher said all staff have already departed the country, with some moving to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, where she has been based.

While U.S. officials have been concerned that Belarusian forces will join Russia's invasion, a senior Defense Department official told reporters Monday they've seen no indication that Belarus is preparing to join. But Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko "seems to be establishing a pretext for more active involvement" in the war, according to an internal State Department situation report Sunday obtained by ABC News, including by accusing Ukraine of "beating" and "poisoning" Belarusians in Ukraine.

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan, Josh Margolin, Matt Seyler