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Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez welcomes with EU Council president Charles Michel in Madrid, one day after Spain takes over rotating EU presidency IMAGES
European Council chief Donald Tusk casts his vote in European parliamentary elections that are pitting nationalist right against pro-EU forces to chart a course for the bloc. IMAGES
European Council president Donald Tusk talks about Russian "aggression" in Ukraine at a press conference at the G20. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that his military has deployed Western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to counter Russia's recent large-scale drone and missile attacks. "We destroyed already some missiles and drones using the F-16," Zelensky says at a press conference in Kyiv, declining to give more details. SOUNDBITE
An AFP team visits the Ukrainian border crossing between the Sumy region and Russia's Kursk region, filming a Ukrainian truck carrying blindfolded men in Russian military uniform travelling away from the Russian border. Ukraine’s army launched a surprise offensive into Kursk on August 6. IMAGES
Smoke rises from damaged buildings in Kyiv after Russia launched dozens of missiles in a rare day-time barrage targeting several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. IMAGES