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The United States says it stands firmly behind Lithuania and NATO commitments to defend it after Russia warned the EU member country over restrictions on rail transit. "We stand by our NATO allies and we stand by Lithuania," State Department spokesman Ned Price tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is welcomed at the presidential palace by the country's president Gitanas Nausėda in Vilnius after arriving in the Lithuanian capital for an unannounced visit to the Baltic states, staunch allies of the war-torn country. Lithuania is the biggest donor to Ukraine in terms of GDP, according to the German-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomes his Polish and Lithuanian counterparts Andrzej Duda and Gitanas Nauseda to Kyiv. Both Lithuania and Poland have expressed staunch solidarity with Ukraine since Russia began its invasion of its pro-Western neighbour last year. IMAGES
World Athletics lifts the ban on the Russian track and field federation for state-sponsored doping although its athletes remain barred from competition while Moscow's invasion of Ukraine continues. SOUNDBITE
Images of the European court of Justice where Russian channel RT France challenges EU ban on broadcasting. IMAGES
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