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President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposes a fresh wave of sanctions against Russia that would include a ban on coal imports and blocking Russian ships from entering European ports. SOUNDBITE
The sentencing by a Russian court of US reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on espionage charges raises "serious concerns," a UN spokesman says. SOUNDBITE
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
The United States denounces a strike on a children's hospital in Kyiv. Russia unleashed "another savage missile attack" on civilians, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
People scramble to douse a fire and clear rubble at Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital after it was hit in a rare daytime Russian barrage on cities across Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that there were an unknown number of people trapped under the rubble of the hospital and it was not immediately clear how many had been killed. IMAGES
Ten children in Gaza are "losing one leg or two legs" every day, says Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, as he delivers a press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE