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About 130 rescued from rubble of
Mariupol theater; Ukrainian
official says; Biden; China's Xi
speak: Live Ukraine updates
USA TODAY
March 18, 2022.10.44 AM
As Russia unleashed a new round of strikes in Kyiv and Lviv on Friday, President Joe
Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke for nearly two hours about the ongoing
crisis in Ukraine as the United States seeks to sway China from from support of Russia:
China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement about the video call that conflict was
not in
anyone's interest.
But the country also renewed criticism of sanctions against Russia
and avoided using the terms "war" or "invasion_
The White House said before the call
Biden would press Xi to denounce Russia's actions
With the invasion in its fourth week
Russian strikes targeted a residential building in
Kyiv; killing one and injuring 19, according to emergency services and mayor Vitali
Klitschko, and a military aircraft repair facility in Lviv:
The strike in Lviv was the closest Russia has come to
striking the center of the western
city. The Ukrainian air force's western command said it shot down tWO of the six
missiles fired at the city from from the Black Sea: Lviv; near the Polish border; has
largely been spared from the worst of the fighting; but a strike at a training facility last
weekend killed nearly three dozen people_
A bus repair facility was also targeted Friday;
mayor
Andriy Sadovyi said.
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