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US President Joe Biden urges the UN General Assembly to stop Russia's "naked aggression" in Ukraine, saying otherwise that the independence of all states would be at risk. "We have to stand up to this naked aggression today to deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow," Biden says. SOUNDBITE
In a speech to a cheering crowd in Vilnius, US President Joe Biden vows that the West will not abandon Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion. "We will not waver," he tells the crowd assembled in the courtyard of Vilnius University, adding that "we will stand for liberty and freedom today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes." IMAGES
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
President Joe Biden says he will veto any Republican legislation that threatens to sow "chaos" in the US economy. "I will not let it happen. Not on my watch. I will veto everything," he says in a speech at a Virginia pipe fitters union hall. SOUNDBITE
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