President Joe Biden wants normal trade relations with Russia to come to an end
Doctor Volodymyr Andriiets shows the basement under the hospital in Brovary that is used during the air raids and shelling in Brovary, Ukraine, in this photo taken on March 10 2022. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/ANASTASIA VLASOVA
Removing Russia’s status of “permanent normal trade relations” with the US would significantly escalate pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the largest conflict in Europe since World War 2. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine and unseat leaders it calls neo-Nazis. Ukraine and Western allies call this a baseless pretext for a war of choice that has raised the fear of wider conflict in Europe.Images provided by Maxar show armoured units manoeuvring in and through towns close to Antonov airport northwest of Kyiv, while other elements further north had repositioned near Lubyanka with towed artillery howitzers in firing positions.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the operation was going to plan, after holding talks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, in Turkey on Thursday, the highest-level meeting since Putin ordered the invasion on February 24. The information war picked up on social media as well, with Russia demanding that Washington stop the “extremist activities” of Facebook owner Meta Platforms, which temporarily lifted a ban on calls for violence against the Russian military and leadership.Hundreds of thousands of civilians remained trapped in Ukrainian cities, sheltering from Russian air raids and shelling despite repeated Russian promises to provide humanitarian corridors for evacuations.
“They constitute war crimes; there are attacks on civilians that cannot be justified by any — in any way whatsoever,” she said in an interview with the BBC.
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