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Biden on Friday opened a four-day trip to Europe to learn about the refugee crisis caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The effort comes even as fighters holed up at the sprawling complex made their last stand to prevent Moscow’s complete takeover of the strategic port.

Fighting is raging at the besieged steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces attempt to finish off the city’s last-ditch defenders and complete the capture of the port city.

Meanwhile, the European Union moved Wednesday to further punish Moscow for the war with a proposed ban on oil imports.

The United Nations confirms that an operation to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway.

The area's regional governor said Jolie had come to speak Saturday with displaced Ukrainians who had found refuge in Lviv.

Ukrainian forces are fighting to hold off a Russian advance aimed at capturing an eastern industrial region along with Ukraine’s last holdout in the southern city of Mairupol.

According to relatives, a former U.S. Marine has been killed fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in what’s the first known death of a U.S. citizen fighting in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s leader has accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

The new proposal would be more than twice as large as the initial $13.6 billion package of defense and economic aid for Ukraine and Western allies.

The Wall That Heals will be open to visitors at William Penn High from Thursday through Sunday afternoon. There’s a candlelight vigil Saturday night.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Sunday.

The reported assault came after the Kremlin claimed its military had seized all of Mariupol except for the seaside plant.

The move comes more than a month after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the military would permanently shut down the tanks and remove all of their fuel.

The new package builds on roughly $2.6 billion in military assistance that Biden had previously approved for Ukraine.