Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: EU prepares new package of sanctions against Russia including oil ban

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Russia-Ukraine War LIVE: The fighting between the Russian and Ukrainian forces has entered the 68th day. The invasion has killed thousands and displaced more than 13 million people in a war the scale of which has not been seen in Europe for generations.

Smoke rises from the grounds of the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol, Ukraine on Friday. (AFP)

Updated on May 03, 2022 05:46 AM IST

LIVE: Russia on Monday launched a fresh assault on the critical Ukrainian port of Odessa as the United States warned that Moscow was preparing formally to annex embattled regions in the east. The new heavy fighting came as the European Union said it was bracing for a complete end to Russian gas supplies, with the bloc preparing another package of sanctions sure to anger President Vladimir Putin.

After failing to take the capital Kyiv, Moscow has shifted its two-month-old invasion to largely Russian-speaking areas and has stepped up pressure on Odessa, a celebrated cultural hub that is a crucial port on the Black Sea.

Among the most battered cities is Mariupol, where an untold number have died and survivors have little access to food, water and medicine. Kyiv said more than 100 civilians were evacuated over the weekend from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant, the last holdout of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, where soldiers and civilians have been sheltering in a maze of underground tunnels.

Western powers have levelled unprecedented sanctions against Russia over the war while delivering money and weapons to Ukraine, including a $33-billion (31 billion-euro) arms and support package announced by US President Joe Biden last week. The European Commission will propose a new package of sanctions today, including an embargo on Russian oil, officials said.

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War LIVE: EU prepares new package of sanctions against Russia including oil ban

Updated on May 03, 2022 05:46 AM IST

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People line up outside a makeshift nucleic acid testing site during a mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Haidian district of Beijing, China. (REUTERS)

Published on May 03, 2022 05:33 AM IST

Agencies | , Beijing, Shanghai

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A woman reacts as she stands in front of a building, destroyed by the shelling, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Borodianka, Kyiv region, on Monday. (REUTERS)

Published on May 03, 2022 05:16 AM IST

Agencies | , Zaporizhzhia

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Volunteers carry an elderly woman after they evacuated residents from a village retaken by Ukrainian forces, next to a frontline.(REUTERS)

Updated on May 02, 2022 10:47 PM IST

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A vessel claimed to be a Russian Raptor boat is destroyed by a drone near Snake Island,(Reuters)

Updated on May 02, 2022 07:35 PM IST

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