UK politics
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4 days agoUkraine allies pledge to take Russian oil and gas off global market
Over 20 nations pledged to remove Russian oil and gas from global markets to choke off funding for Russia's war machine and bolster Ukraine.
News that a highly anticipated meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been put on hold will offer some relief to Ukraine's EU allies, who were left rattled by the prospect of the bloc's most Russia-friendly member playing host to talks on the future of Europe's security. Key summits in Brussels and London later this week could now test Europe's capacity to deliver as it tries to unlock fresh financial support for Kyiv,
Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's war effort. Ukraine's largest private energy company, DTEK, said Saturday that "the main work to restore the power supply" had been completed,