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Ukraine Update….70 days into the Russian move on the Ukraine…Western VIP visits….

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G-7 leaders will try to stop importing Russian oil….

Jill Biden and Canda PM Tredeau drop into the Ukraine …

Solider’s in the Mariupol steel plant pledge to not leave ….

Monday is Russia’ Victory Day ……

What could Puitn say?

US may sending State Dept staff back to Kyiv….

Fighting the East of the country contiues while Ukrainian forces mount offensive attack’s in the North….

President Biden and leaders of other Group of Seven nations vowed to phase out, or altogether ban, the import of Russian oil in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement after a video meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The move is intended to hit the “main artery” of Russia’s economy and deny President Vladimir Putin “the revenue he needs to fund the war,” the White House said. Although the United States had already banned the import of Russian oil, the European Union is considering a proposal to do the same. The G-7 consists of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.

The pledge came the same day as two high-level, unannounced visits to Ukraine: First lady Jill Biden stopped at the border town of Uzhhorod, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to his nation’s embassy in Kyiv and to Irpin, a suburb of the capital devastated in the early weeks of the Russian invasion.

The show of support before Moscow’s planned Victory Day tribute on Monday followed fresh attacks in eastern Ukraine. Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said Russian forces bombed a school that was serving as a shelter, leaving as many as 60 people buried underthe rubble and feared dead.

Here’s what else to know

  • Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol’s embattled steel plant, the port city’s last remaining holdout, pledged to fight “as long as we are alive, for justice,” as Zelensky appealed for their evacuation after the last civilians were allowed to leave the facility.
  • A senior American diplomat on Sunday visited the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, which personnel had departed a few days before Russia’s invasion. Although the visit did not signal an official reopening of the embassy, the Biden administration plans to do so.
  • The head of the Russian republic of Chechnya said Sunday that his troops have seized most of the eastern Ukrainian city of Popasna; Ukrainian officials insisted the fight is not over….

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