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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announces she would help organise a conference on securing the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the ongoing conflict. "We are at the very beginning of very hard work, we aim to pull together international pressure to take all possible measures to establish the whereabouts of these children," she says. SOUNDBITE
Brussels is seeking to exclude Russian bank Sberbank from the SWIFT network, says Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, in the context of war in Ukraine and EU sanctions against Russia. SOUNDBITE
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg pays his respect to "the Ukrainian armed forces, which are really proving their bravery and their courage by fighting and standing up against the much larger invading Russian force." SOUNDBITE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hold a joint press conference at the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky hold a joint press conference at the Mariinsky Palace in Kyiv. IMAGES
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Ukraine has an "urgent, critical need for more air defence", at a G7 foreign ministers meeting on Capri. Ukraine has struggled on the battlefield for months, outgunned and outnumbered by Russian forces amid a shortage of Western military aid. SOUNDBITE
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