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Images show Ukrainian civilians assisted by the military crossing a damaged road bridge to evacuate the city of Irpin on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv. IMAGES
Images show thousands of Ukrainians inside cars, many displaying signs reading “Children” and “Evacuation”, queuing to evacuate their homes on the outskirts of Kyiv. IMAGES
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky on a historic visit to Kyiv, where he is pushing for a solution to end more than two years of war with Russia. Modi embraced Zelensky and signed the guest book at the Mariinsky palace, the president's official residence, in the first ever visit by an Indian premier to Ukraine. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Narendra Modi in the Indian prime minister's first visit to the war-torn country. IMAGES
The United States calls for the release of US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva, sentenced to more than six years in prison for violating strict military censorship laws. "Journalism is not a crime (...) and we continue to make very clear that she should be released," US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says during a press briefing. SOUNDBITE
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE