ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine, May 3 (Reuters) - Russian forces fired rockets at an encircled steel works in Ukraine's southern port city of Mariupol and thick smoke blackened the sky at the plant where officials on Tuesday said 200 civilians were trapped ...
Russia’s offensive to capture the east and south after failing to take the capital of Kyiv has been met with commitments by Western powers to supply heavier weapons to Ukraine. On Tuesday, the European Commission is expected to finalise a ban on buying Russian oil in an effort to squeeze Moscow’s war chest.
“You wake up in the morning and you cry. You cry in the evening. I don’t know where to go at all,” said Mariupol resident Tatyana Bushlanova, sitting by a blackened apartment block and talking over the sound of shells exploding nearby. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists.
“We ask you not to stop, to accelerate the pace of heavy weapons provision,” she told British television, adding that she had not seen President Volodymyr Zelenskiy since the start of the invasion. EU countries have paid more than 47 billion euros to Russia for gas and oil since it invaded Ukraine, according to research organisation the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.Putin responded with retaliatory economic sanctions against “unfriendly” foreign states on Tuesday.
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