While Beijing is threading the needle diplomatically over its close ties with the Kremlin, its tightly controlled state media and "wolf warrior" officials are increasingly converging with Moscow's skewed coverage of the war and pushing conspiracy theories in the process.
The Ukrainian Interior Ministry has reported that some civilians have managed to be evacuated from several towns and cities although Russian military forces were blocking the process in several places.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Warsaw at the start of a two-day visit to Poland and Romania to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the impact the war is having on the region.
A Russian air strike has devastated a children's hospital in the beleaguered port of Mariupol and wounded at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, triggering international condemnation from Washington, London, and the Vatican, among others.