The journalist, Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, “was in Ukraine to show the reality of the war,” French President Emmanuel Macron said on Twitter. Underlying the EU debate is concern that the public support for sanctions could weaken if an oil embargo drives already high energy bills even higher, hitting a European economy still recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.Ī French journalist for the television-news channel BFM was killed while reporting on evacuation efforts in Luhansk, French officials and the channel said Monday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, addressing the EU summit by video Monday evening, told the leaders that “all quarrels in Europe must end” because internal discord “only encourages Russia to put more and more pressure on you, on the whole of Europe.” But reliance on Russian gas and oil in many EU countries has impeded those efforts.
European leaders have declared their eagerness to stop funding the Russian government and its ability to wage war in Ukraine.
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Russia: President Putin told his French and German counterparts that Moscow was open to resuming talks with Ukraine, but that the supply of Western weapons risked exacerbating the crisis, the Kremlin said.īRUSSELS-European Union leaders labored Monday to bridge differences over a proposed oil embargo on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine, despite an appeal from the country’s president, but some officials and oil traders showed confidence a deal could come.ĮU officials for almost two months have haggled over how to constrict energy imports from Russia, for which the bloc pays tens of billions of dollars monthly. considers sending Multiple Launch Rocket Systems for battlefield use. won't send rocket systems that strike Russia, as the U.S. The embargo will include an exemption for oil delivered from Russia via pipelines, an amount that makes up one-third of EU oil purchases from Russia. Strains to infrastructure will impair Ukraine’s ability to export its coming grain harvest, as the country tries to work around Russia’s Black Sea blockade, likely depriving the world of more than 8% of all cereal exports.ĮU: The European Union said for the first time that it will impose an oil embargo on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, taking a big step forward in the bloc’s economic fight against Moscow that is already reverberating in global markets. The battle for Severodonetsk has in many ways resembled the fight for Mariupol, where Russian-backed forces worked to encircle the city while constant shelling reduced most buildings to rubble.Ī French journalist was killed while reporting on evacuation efforts in Luhansk, the province’s governor said. Ukraine: Russian forces advanced into the center of Severodonetsk, one of the last Ukrainian strongholds in the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow is now concentrating its offensive. For the latest developments on the war in Ukraine, please follow along here.
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