Russia-Ukraine War: IMF Approves $15.6 Billion Loan on Day 402.

US President Joe Biden has called on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested on espionage charges and is facing 20 years in jail. Meanwhile, Ukraine marked the anniversary of the recapture of Bucha after 33 days of occupation, and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez encouraged China's President Xi Jinping to speak to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to learn about Ukraine's peace formula. Finland is set to be formally welcomed into NATO, while Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has intensified talks with Russia about deploying nuclear weapons in Belarus. The UN human rights chief has said that "severe violations" of human rights and international humanitarian law have become "shockingly routine" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the ICC has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for overseeing the abduction of Ukrainian children.
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