mona lisa with cream cake, a man is held after attempting to deface the world famous portrait in the louvre museum in paris. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said the agreement was very significant for reasons of climate as well as dealing with moscow. it isa it is a big step forward, what we did today, because indeed we now have gotten rid of cole and this was already very difficult. now we have basically the political agreement, how to phase out oil in a clear timeframe and we
pipeline into croatia. they said the refineries need updating, we also know the president who has been re elected in hungary as an ally of president s even he has said that this invasion must not, essentially saw a lot of people will be suspicious that. and very briefly you mentioned it is the sixth package of sanctions, oil is the issue that if one looks at but that was not all that is in it. yes, russia s was not all that is in it. yes, russia s biggest was not all that is in it. yes, russia s biggest bank- was not all that is in it. yes, russia s biggest bank has i was not all that is in it. yes, i russia s biggest bank has been banned from using the swift payment system, three russian broadcasters put on the band list, there is also a ban on ensuring russian ships or the ensuring russian ships or the ensuring russian ships or the ensuring russian ships, so all of these measures which needed unanimous support being brought on russia to try and stop them, to stop them in their tr
ukraine s generals must decide how many more troops to sacrifice in what could be a losing battle for this part of donbas. a fighting retreat to more defensible positions looks likely if the russian offensive doesn t stall. new trench networks, well back from the existing front line, are ready. kramatorsk, one of the donbas towns that must be on the russian target list, is about 15 minutes drive that way. the rest of the ukraine is there. this might all simply bejust in case, a contingency plan, but if the russians do blast their way through, they re going to need it. maxsym s unit was ordered to retreat closer to bakhmut after weeks of heavy fighting.
mona lisa with cream cake, a man is held after attempting to deface the world famous portrait in the louvre museum in paris. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. by the end of the year, the eu will be blocking 90% of its oil imports from russia. that is the message coming from the eu member states as they imposed further sanctions against vladimir putin s government over its invasion of ukraine. the bloc agreed to ban more than two thirds of russian oil imports straight away at a summit in brussels, where hungary heavily dependent on russian oil resisted a full oil embargo. european commission president, ursula von der leyen said
and is currently director of the eurasia center at the atlantic council. hejoins us now from virginia. thanks very much indeed for your time. there is a general sense of destruction clearly in the dundas region and retreat for ukrainian forces, despite as we heard there, the arrival of us howitzers coming into play. how much difference would it make, do you think, for longer range missiles to be made available by the biden administration which, clearly he has decided he is not going to do. if he has decided he is not going to do. ,, ., , .,, to do. if the united states was resolute in to do. if the united states was resolute in supporting - to do. if the united states was| resolute in supporting ukraine, biden has done a good dealfor ukraine but he has done it incrementally and timidly. if he was resolute in supporting ukraine, sending all the weapons ukraine has been asking forfour month, then our experts understand the situation they believe ukraine