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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in Berlin for four-way talks with counterparts from France and Germany as well as Britain's junior foreign minister to set up a common strategy against Moscow, a day before his crunch talks with Russia's Sergei Lavrov. IMAGES
State Department spokesperson Ned Price says "there is no daylight" between the US and European allies on the severity of the response to any Russian invasion of Ukraine. "And more importantly, the Russian Federation knows that", he added. SOUNDBITE
Kiev (Ukraine), Dec 8 (EFE / EPA) .- Hundreds of Ukrainians gathered on the Independence Square in Kiev a day before the "Normandy Format" talks in Paris. (CAMERA: Sergey Dolshenko)IMAGES OF THE PROTEST IN KIEV. INCLUDES FOOTAGE OF THE UCRANIAN FORMER PRESIDENT AND LEADER OF THE PARTY "EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY", PETRO POROSHENKO
European leaders arrive for an Extraordinary European Summit on aid to Ukraine in Brussels, with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen among the arrivals. IMAGES
NATO members have agreed that their established goal of spending two percent of their national output on defence will become a minimum level, alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg tells reporters. "Eleven allies now reach or exceed the two percent benchmark," he says at the end of the first day of the NATO summit in Vilnius. "And we expect this number will rise substantially next year. Today, allies made an enduring commitment to invest at least two percent of gross domestic product annually in defence." SOUNDBITE
Wagner's aborted mutiny shows that Moscow's war in Ukraine is splintering Russian power, and instability in the nuclear-armed power is "not a good thing", the EU's top diplomat says. SOUNDBITE