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Crowds gather in Ghetto Heroes Square in Warsaw on the first day of commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Polish government officials and survivors in attendance. Sirens can be heard across the Polish capital to mark the beginning of the commemorations, which mark the 1943 revolt of hundreds of the city's Jewish inhabitants against the Nazis. IMAGES
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk welcomes his UK counterpart Rishi Sunak to Warsaw, with the British leader in the Polish capital for talks that will focus on Ukraine and wider European security. Sunak's visit to Eastern Europe comes as Kyiv pleads with allies to ramp up supplies of ammunition and air defences desperately needed to repel Russian attacks. IMAGES
UK leader Rishi Sunak meets NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw where he will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, according to his Downing Street office. IMAGES
UK leader Rishi Sunak arrives in Warsaw for talks with Polish premier Donald Tusk and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg that will focus on Ukraine and wider European security. While in Poland's capital, the British prime minister will announce £500 million ($617 million) in additional military funding for Kyiv in its more-than two-year battle against Russia's full-scale invasion, according to his Downing Street office. IMAGES
NATO foreign ministers meet for the NATO-Ukraine Council foreign ministers' session. One of the issues on the agenda is military aid to Kyiv. It comes on the 75th anniversary of the alliance, menaced by an aggressive Russia and the spectre of Donald Trump's return to power. IMAGES