NATO foreign ministers will gather Wednesday in Brussels to discuss support for Ukraine after mounting evidence of atrocities in a suburb of Kyiv spurred Western promises to step up economic pressure on the Kremlin.
The Biden administration is set to announce a ban on new investments in Russia and more sanctions, while the European Union, divided over imposing a full energy embargo, is debating an import ban on Russian coal under a new round of penalties. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, demanding a tougher E.U. response Wednesday, criticized leaders who “still think war crimes are not as horrific as financial losses.”
Ukrainian leaders say the grim killings in Bucha are not the exception. The withdrawal of Russian forces in other parts of the country has revealed looted homes and shootings of civilians.
Here’s what to know
- The Red Cross said it was “impossible to enter” the southern port of Mariupol after its team tried over five days to reach thousands of people trapped in the devastated city.
- Greece and Norway said Wednesday they would expel Russian diplomats, and Moscow vowed to retaliate — the latest sign of a tit-for-tat downgrading of Russia’s diplomatic relations with its European neighbors.
- The Kremlin has cast the withdrawal of troops from around Kyiv as “a gesture of goodwill" for negotiations, while Russian troops shifted to eastern Ukraine where officials reported intensifying attacks.
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