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In an interview with DW, Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the EU Commission exerts a ‘practical and fast’ approach to supporting Ukraine, from ammunition production to facilitating Ukrainian refugees’ direct access to the labor market, the schooling- and health system, and Social Security.

According to Vice President Kamala Harris, the US has determined that the Russian military is committing crimes against humanity in its invasion of Ukraine.

Xi Jinping, the Chinese leader, will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s summit in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, where he will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Reuters reports.

EU Diplomatic Representative, Josep Borrell Fontelles, briefed the European Parliament on Tuesday about the EU-China summit held on April 1. He pointed out that the video conference between EU leaders and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a “deaf dialogue” and said there are doubts about China’s willingness to cooperate in ending the war in Ukraine, the Chinese Edition of Radio France Internationale (RFI) reports.

A Western intelligence report reveals that senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, NY Times reports.

Russia has detained two journalists, Nazgul Kenzhetay and Emin Karaçak, from a Turkish news website, GZT. The two were arrested on Dec. 16th on alleged charges of “espionage” after they traveled to the Sakha Republic to record a vlog on Turkic communities and cultures, GZT reports.