Russia’s progress in eastern and southern Ukraine is being closely monitored as its forces appear to have escalated assaults on those regions. Attacks on Mariupol steelworks intensify as Russia looks to end standoff. Fate of Ukraine’s Donbas is in the balance.
The U.S. and its allies are rushing to send additional security assistance amid an intensified Russian assault in eastern and southern Ukraine.
EU should impose total ban on Russian oil. Putin has to pay a 'high price for his brutal aggression' in Ukraine. The supply of crude oil and refined products from Russia sould be prohibited. The sanctions should also targeted military figures involved in the massacre of civilians in the town of Bucha and the siege of the port city of Mariupol and blocking Russian state television.