A tornado swept across northeast China's Jilin Province on Monday afternoon, causing property damage but no casualties, local authorities reported.
Video footage shot by local eyewitnesses showed the giant gray vortex churning across open fields and kicking up dense clouds of debris as it touched down around Changshan Town in Jilin's Songyuan City.
The twister, which lasted about an hour starting around 15:00, ripped the roofs off several homes and damaged power infrastructure, leaving more than 200 households without electricity.
Officials said most of the affected homes had sheet metal roofs that were particularly vulnerable to the high winds brought by the tornado.
Power crews worked through the night to restore electricity and had completed repairs by Tuesday noon, according to the local power company.
Tornado sweeps across rural north China villages, damaging homes, power lines
The European Union will participate in this week's Ukraine peace talks in Abu Dhabi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday, while the Kremlin insisted that the negotiations would be joined by Russia, Ukraine and the United States, without European officials.
Von der Leyen said on social media X that she had a "good call" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of the talks, adding that the EU would be present alongside its partners. Zelensky said on X that the two had coordinated their positions ahead of the meeting and were working to "ensure that the trilateral format delivered results."
However, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that the talks, scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, would involve only Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. delegations. He noted that Ukraine and the United States each had separate channels of communication with European counterparts, according to Russia's Sputnik.
Von der Leyen also reiterated support for Zelensky's call for a ceasefire covering food and energy infrastructure and said "freedom of navigation in the Black Sea must be restored and preserved" amid growing security threats in the region.
The Abu Dhabi talks, to be mediated by the United States, are expected to focus on ending the conflict, post-war security arrangements and de-escalation.
EU, Russia differ over European participation in upcoming Ukraine talks
