France said on Monday EU member states had agreed on a fourth package of sanctions against Russia.
Russian forces have been bearing down on Kyiv from the northeast and northwest, but have made little progress so far towards the capital itself, despite heavy fighting that has reduced suburbs on its outskirts to rubble. In Kyiv itself, an apartment block"The staircase was not there anymore, everything was on fire," apartment resident Maksim Korovii said.
In Donetsk, held since 2014 by Russian-backed separatists, Russia's defence ministry said at least 20 people had been killed and 28 wounded by what it said was a. It released footage of a missile on a busy street and vehicles destroyed by shrapnel.
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