KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Europe pushed to toughen its response Monday to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Sweden joining Finland in deciding to seek NATO membership and European Union off…
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and CIARAN McQUILLAN
Also Monday, a glimmer of hope emerged for wounded Ukrainian troops trapped in the bombed remains of a giant steel plant, the last stronghold of resistance in the port city of Mariupol. The Russian Defense Ministry announced an agreement for the wounded to leave the steelworks for treatment in a town held by pro-Moscow separatists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion in what he said was an effort to check NATO’s expansion but is now seeing that strategy backfire, warned that a military buildup on the two countries’ territory “will of course give rise to our reaction in response.” “Unfortunately, we have no reason to believe that the trend will reverse in the foreseeable future,” she said.
“We will do our best in order to deblock the situation,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. “I cannot ensure that it is going to happen because positions are quite strong.”
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