If the fine print in reporting is correct?
Russian forces are close to achieving their goals in the SouthEastern Ukraine…
European efforts to stop the exports of Russian oil and natural gass is full of holes and exemptions…
And?
The conflict is keeping Western oil/gas prices high and will begin to do the same for wheat….
The Russian’s have figured out ways to get around the non direct efforts to punish them it would seem….
At some point coming up?
One would think the West is going to start working in the background to get Ukraine President Zelensky to take what he get and settle with Putin….
A Ukrainian court found two Russian soldiers guilty of shelling civilian sites during fighting in Kharkiv and sentenced them Tuesday to 11½ years in prison. It was the second verdict handed down in a war crimes trial in Ukraine since the conflict began. Ukrainian prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova announced at a news conference Tuesday that Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia will participate in a joint effort by Eastern European countries and the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
The European Union announced late Monday its long-awaited deal to curtail use of Russian oil, a move it said would cut about 90 percent of oil imports from Russia by the end of this year. The agreement is softened by an exemption for pipeline oil, a concession to landlocked E.U. members, notably Hungary.
