UPDATED. The US and Britain expand their sanctions blacklists. Countries announce new packages of military and humanitarian aid and promises to take in refugees. The EU is due to announce steps to wean itself off Russian energy.
Western leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday, March 24, agreed to strengthen their forces in Eastern Europe, increase military aid to Ukraine and tighten their sanctions on Russia asIn a display of unity at an unprecedented triple summit of NATO, the G7 and the European Union, the military alliance announced new battle groups to be stationed in four Eastern European countries.
Still, those pledges stopped short of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s calls for a full boycott of Russian energy products and a no-fly zone over Ukraine, where thousands of people have been killed, millions become refugees, and cities pulverized since Russian leader Vladimir Putin unleashed his invasion on February 24.In the besieged southern port of Mariupol, hundreds of thousands of people have been hiding in basements with no running water, food, medicine or power.
Viktoria was burying her 73-year-old stepfather Leonid, killed when the car ferrying him to a hospital was blown up 12 days ago. He had taken her seat in the car, she told Reuters, pointing to the mangled remains of the vehicle.Ukrainian officials accused Russia on Thursday of having forcibly deported 15,000 people from the city to Russia. Moscow denies this.
Ukraine said its forces had destroyed the Russian landing ship the “Orsk” at the Russian-occupied port of Berdyansk on the Azov Sea. “We must ensure that the decision to invade a sovereign independent country is understood to be a strategic failure that carries with it ruinous costs for Putin and Russia,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the EU parliament.
“Come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities, come in the name of peace, come with Ukrainian symbols to support Ukraine, to support freedom, to support life,” he said in a video address.Tens of thousands of people are still believed to be trapped inside Mariupol under Russian bombardment, havinghad no access to food, power, water or heat since the war’s early days.
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