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French President Emmanuel Macron, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis hold roundtable talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The three European leaders are on a trip to Ukraine with French President Emmanuel Macron as a show of support for the country in its war with Russia. IMAGES
Following the first session of a weapons summit in Germany, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says that the United States and its allies will meet once a month to discuss Ukraine's defence needs to battle invading Russian troops. SOUNDBITE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for crisis talks ahead of a dramatic visit to Moscow to head off what Berlin sees as the "very critical" threat of a Russian invasion. IMAGES
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin promises that the "United States will not let Ukraine fail" at the opening of a meeting of Ukraine's international supporters in Germany, even as further aid remains stalled in Congress and Kyiv's forces face shortages of munitions. SOUNDBITE
On the last day of Russia's presidential elections, set to cement Vladimir Putin's grip on power, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny widow, Yulia Navalnaya, tells the press after voting at the Russian embassy in Berlin that Putin is "a killer" and a "gangster. Crowds had earlier chanted: "Yulia, Yulia, we're with you," as she entered to cast her ballot. Alexei Navalny was Putin's most prominent rival, and died in an Arctic prison last month in mysterious circumstances. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).