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U.S. President Barack Obama says Russian forces continue to operate in eastern Ukraine and that world's major powers stand ready to impose tougher sanctions if needed. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insists that a special tribunal must be created to hold Russia to account for its "aggression". "When there is a tradition of inevitable punishment of aggression, then there will be a tradition of guaranteed non-repetition of aggression," he tells diplomats and officials at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russia's Vladimir Putin over a war crime charge. SOUNDBITE
Metropolitan Pavlo, the director of the Ukrainian capital's historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery, appears in court on the charges of inciting religious hatred and denying Russian aggression. Despite the church officially breaking ties with the Russian Patriarchate after the invasion of Ukraine last year, Kyiv believes it is still de facto dependent on Moscow. IMAGES
US President Joe Biden says during a joint press conference at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron, that the US and France would not let up on support for Ukraine's war against Russia and pledges to "stand togther against this brutality". SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron attends a virtual emergency summit of G7 leaders alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss the large-scale Russian bombardment of Ukrainian territory the previous day. IMAGES
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