The US sanctioned more top Russian officials while the EU imposed harsher sanctions on Russia but rejected Ukraine's request to join the bloc
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 10, 2022 in this still image taken from video. Picture: TV/Handout via REUTERS
The US on Friday imposed sanctions on Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, three family members of President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson and lawmakers in the latest punishment for Russia's February 24 invasion. As hundreds sheltered in Kharkiv metro stations, Nastya, a young girl lying on a makeshift bed on the floor of a train carriage, said she had been there for more than a week, unable to move around much and ill with a virus.
A new effort to evacuate civilians along a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol appeared to have failed, as Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian shelling prevented them from leaving.Western countries meanwhile took more economic steps to try to force Putin to end his assault. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that the EU would on Saturday suspend Moscow's privileged trade and economic treatment, crack down on its use of cryptoassets, and ban the import of iron and steel goods from Russia, as well as the export of luxury goods in the other direction.Russia's main force has been stalled north of Kyiv, having failed in what Western analysts say was an initial plan for a lightning assault.
But Britain's intelligence update said Russian ground forces were still making only limited progress, hampered by logistical problems and Ukrainian resistance.
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