The European Union is set to announce sanctions on Russian oil imports on Wednesday, as Russia launched more attacks on eastern and southern Ukraine.
Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and evidence of war crimes, has pushed the EU to take bolder steps on energy sanctions. But imposing measures that could reduce, or fully cut, Russian energy supplies to the EU have been a complicated task for the bloc which is heavily reliant on Russian energy."Let us be clear: it will not be easy," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference Wednesday.
U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan met with Oscar Stenstrom, state secretary for foreign affairs to the prime minister of Sweden, according to a statement from U.S. National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson. "We finally have a result, the first result of our evacuation operation from Azovstal in Mariupol, which we have been organizing for a very long time," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address on Telegram.
He also said the Russian shelling of areas of western Ukraine is"evidence that Russia does not have any special military objective. Hitting Zakarpattya [the most western part of Ukraine]. What specifically can it give to Russia?" he said.UK says Russia intends to capture cities to consolidate control in northeastern Donbas
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