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Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Monday, March 20th. I'm Nyla Budu. Today, what

you need to know about a possible criminal indictment against former President Trump.

But first, Russia, China and their Ukraine wartime relationship. That's today's one big thing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Marialpul this weekend, marking

his first trip to the Ukrainian territory that Russia annexed in September. And today,

Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Exios' Dave Loller is here with the big picture. Hey, Dave. Dave, Putin's visit to Marialpul

came just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for Putin

on war crimes charges. In fact, one of President Zelensky's advisors tweeted that, quote,

the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime. Is the timing of this trip an

expression of defiance by Putin against the ICC? It could certainly be read that way. And

look, Marialpul was the city that was perhaps most brutally bombarded and besieged by Russia

last year. It fell after a very prolonged struggle, but was almost entirely destroyed

in the process. And so I think that might be part of why you heard this quite angry reaction

from Ukrainian officials that Putin would go there now and essentially celebrate that it's

in Russian hands and kind of paint a picture that it's being rebuilt as a Russian city. But,

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