EU announces plan to phase out all imports of Russian oil as part of sixth package of sanctions against Moscow
Russia since the war, and the US administration is hoping to take advantage of that brain drain, officials said.White House National Security Council senior director for Europe Amanda Sloat told CNN the Biden administration does not want to allow Putin to"co-opt" Monday’s Victory Day by tying it to the invasion of Ukraine. She declined to weigh in on intelligence indicating
to rally support for his invasion of Ukraine, including possible steps to formally declare war on its neighbor or annex the Donbas and Luhansk regions., the Élysée Palace said Tuesday. Macron warned Putin of the consequences of the war and called for an end to the “devastating aggression,” it said. Macron also “expressed his deep concern about Mariupol" and the situation in the Donbas region.
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