Russia Inches Toward Kyiv, Its Attacks Draw War Crimes Warnings
NDTV
US Vice-President Kamala Harris said Russian President "shows no sign of engaging in serious diplomacy" to end the war he launched on February 24.
The US and the EU moved Friday to tighten the economic noose around the Kremlin as Russian forces inched toward the capital Kyiv and pounded civilian areas of Ukrainian cities, drawing a flurry of warnings of potential war crimes.
US Vice-President Kamala Harris said Russian President Vladimir Putin "shows no sign of engaging in serious diplomacy" to end the war he launched on February 24.
Harris spoke in Bucharest, her latest stop on a tour of Ukraine's EU and NATO neighbours, former Soviet satellites, to reassure them the transatlantic alliance is solid as Putin ratchets up his denunciation of NATO's eastward advance since communism collapsed in the 1990s.
Keen to avoid a direct military intervention in non-NATO Ukraine that they fear could trigger World War III, the allies announced further steps to increase the economic pressure on the Kremlin to rein in its forces.
