accounting and consulting firms from providing services to any Russian and more restrictions on Russia’s industrial sector. The penalties include cutting off Western advertising from Russia’s three biggest television stations, banning U.S. WASHINGTON - The United States has announced new sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. But Hungary’s objections last week to proposed sanctions on Russian oil have complicated European Union efforts. Italy, heavily dependent on Russian natural gas when the war began, has since secured several agreements for alternative gas supplies from other countries. The premier’s office says the G-7 leaders reiterated their committment to diversify energy sources to reduce dependent on Russian supplies. The war is threatening Ukraine’s grain production, and the fighting in and around Black Sea ports makes food shipments impossible.
Exports of grain from Ukraine and Russia cover much of the needs of other nations, especially in Africa. He also pressed for continued commitment by the G-7 grouping to help poor countries at risk of a food crisis. Draghi’s office says he told other world leaders “at the same time, we must make every effort to help reach as soon as possible a cease-fire and to give new thrust to peace negotiations. His office shared details of the call in a Sunday evening statement. ROME - Italian Premier Mario Draghi told fellow G-7 leaders during a meeting via video call that a sixth package of sanctions must go forward against Russia. President Joe Biden’s call with the G-7 leaders and Zelenskyy lasted about an hour. “We owe it to the memory of all those who fought for freedom in the Second World War, to continue fighting for it today, for the people of Ukraine, Europe and the global community,” they said. “We will ensure that we do so in a timely and orderly fashion, and in ways that provide time for the world to secure alternative supplies,” they added.Ĭasting a look back at World War II, the leaders stressed unity in their resolve that Putin must not win. KYIV, Ukraine - Leaders from the Group of Seven developed democracies pledged Sunday to phasing out or banning the import of Russian oil, as they met with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for online talks to stress their support and to display unity among Western allies on Victory in Europe Day, which marks Nazi Germany’s surrender in 1945.Ĭutting out Russian oil supplies “will hit hard at the main artery of (President Vladimir) Putin’s economy and deny him the revenue he needs to fund his war,” the G-7 countries, which include the U.S., Britain, Canada, Germany, France and Italy and Japan, said in a statement. The town is considered a possible war crimes site. He also visited Bucha, a town outside Kyiv where hundreds of bodies were found after Russian troops withdrew last month. He was joined by another singer in Ukrainian military fatigues. King song “Stand By Me” in the Khreschatyk metro station.
The Irish singer has tweeted that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do.”īono, alongside guitarist the Edge, sang the Ben E. KYIV, Ukraine - U2 frontman Bono performed in a Kyiv subway station that serves as a bomb shelter on Sunday, showing his support for Ukrainians trying to fend off the Russian invasion. The United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross have been coordinating the evacuations. The most recent evacuation was the latest effort to rescue people from tunnels beneath the Azovstal steel mine, where Ukrainian fighters are trying to hold off Russian attackers. Lubrani says more than 600 people have now been evacuated from the Mariupol area. The evacuees have been taken to Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine. That’s according to a Sunday statement by Osnat Lubrani, the United Nation’s humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine. ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - More than 170 people have been evacuated from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after weeks of shelling and fighting as Russia attempts to take over the port city. Ukrainian volunteers work to craft body armor, camouflage nets for soldiersįollow all AP stories on Russia’s war on Ukraine at Jill Biden makes surprise Mother's Day visit to Ukraine, meets first lady there
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