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The Red Cross demands a halt to all military operations around a Russian-held nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, warning the consequences of a strike could be "catastrophic". "It is high time to stop playing with fire and instead take concrete measures to protect this facility and others like it from any military operations," Robert Mardini, director general of the ICRC, tells reporters in Kyiv. SOUNDBITE
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell decries Russia's attack on the Ukrainian port city Mariupol as "a massive war crime", as the bloc discusses imposing more sanctions on Moscow. SOUNDBITE
Divided Ukraine marks International Children's Day with celebrations in the west and memorial services in the east. Diane Hodges reports.
As a fragile Ukraine ceasefire comes under renewed strain, an orphanage in rebel-held Donetsk struggles to shield its young charges from the year-long conflict. Mana Rabiee reports.
UNICEF says its concerned children are 'paying the price' of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine, saying 1.7 million are seriously affected by the crisis there. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses China of "fuelling" Russia's invasion of Ukraine through the transfers of dual use materials and weapons components from Chinese businesses to Russia for use in Moscow's military expansion. "If China purports on the one hand to want good relations with Europe and other countries, it can't on the other hand be fuelling what is the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War," Blinken tells a press conference after a meeting of G7 foreign ministers on the Italian island of Capri where he had urged urged his European counterparts to increase pressure on Beijing. SOUNDBITE
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