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Hundreds of people gather to pay their respects and lay flowers at the grave of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on the final day of a presidential election that is guaranteed to cement Vladimir Putin's hardline rule. Before his death in an Arctic prison last month, Navalny urged Russians to protest on March 17. His widow, Yulia Navalnaya, has reiterated his call and said protesters should show up in large numbers at the same time to overwhelm polling stations. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vows that Russia will eventually pay financially for its invasion, telling a reconstruction conference in London that Washington will stand with the country's people until then. SOUNDBITE
The EU pledges to hold war criminals to account after footage spread online allegedly showing the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russian forces. SOUNDBITE
Images show UK's Leader of the Opposition and head of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, as he meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. IMAGES
'Welcome to the EU, welcome home' says President of the European Council Charles Michel as EU leaders hail the arrival of Ukrainian President Zelensky in Brussels for his first visit to the heart of the union since Russia's invasion. SOUNDBITE
Indonesian President Joko Widodo tells G20 members they must avoid another world war as he opens a leaders' summit dominated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine in Bali. SOUNDBITE
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