First Thing: Austrian chancellor to meet Putin in Russia
Karl Nehammer will be first EU leader to meet Russian president since invasion began. Plus, what happened when Fox News viewers watch CNN for a month?
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Austria's chancellor is to meet Vladimir Putin on Monday, the Russian president's first face-to-face meeting with an EU leader since ordering the invasion of Ukraine, amid warnings of a fresh offensive and shelling in the east.
What might Russia do next? The UK Ministry of Defence warned on Monday morning that Russian forces may resort to using phosphorous weapons in Mariupol as fighting for the city intensifies. It cited the previous use of the munitions by Russian soldiers in Donetsk.
What else is happening? Here's what we know on day 47 of the invasion.
What did Cheney say? We have not made a decision about referrals on the committee ... [but] it's actually clear that what President Trump was dealing with, what a number of people around him were doing, that they knew it was awful. That they did it anyway."
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