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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urges the world to hold President Vladimir Putin accountable for the Ukraine invasion, at a Security Council meeting attended by Russia. "The very international order that we've gathered here to uphold is being shredded before our eyes. We cannot -- we will not -- allow President Putin to get away with it," Blinken says. SOUNDBITE
People respond to a call from opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya to turn up at polling stations at midday Moscow time (0900 GMT) in a form of protest that attempts to overwhelm them. Before his death in an Arctic prison last month, opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who galvanised mass anti-Putin rallies, had urged Russians to protest on March 17. The polling station is where opposition leader Alexei Navalny was registered. IMAGES
Washington's United Nations ambassador makes a direct plea to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to release a detained US journalist and a former US Marine. "I am calling on you, right now, to release Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich immediately, to let Paul and Evan come home," Linda Thomas-Greenfield tells Lavrov as the Russian foreign minister chairs a UN Security Council meeting in New York. SOUNDBITE
US President, Joe Biden, tells a crowd in Warsaw that Russian President, Vladimir Putin, "thought autocrats like himself were tough and that leaders of democracy were soft, and then he met the iron will of America and the nations everywhere that refuse to accept a world governed by fear and force." 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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