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  • The 27 member countries of the EU have agreed on a gradual embargo on Russian oil.

    It will initially concern oil transported by boat, ie two-thirds of European purchases of Russian black gold.

    A temporary exemption has been provided for oil transported by pipeline, in order to lift Budapest's veto.

  • This sixth package of European sanctions also includes the exclusion of three Russian banks from the Swift international financial system, including Sberbank, the country's main establishment.

  • The Russian economy is beginning to suffer from Western sanctions.

    Inflation, close to 18% annually in April, is at its highest in 20 years.

  • Vladimir Putin assured his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Russia was ready to work with Turkey for the free movement of goods in the Black Sea, including “the export of grain from Ukrainian ports”.

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6:49 a.m .: The extraordinary EU summit continues

The 27 member countries of the European Union agreed overnight from Monday to Tuesday on a gradual embargo on Russian oil.

A temporary exemption has been provided for oil transported by pipeline, in order to lift Budapest's veto.

This sixth package of European sanctions also includes the exclusion of three Russian banks from the Swift international financial system, including Sberbank, the country's main establishment.

European leaders also approved on Monday evening the granting of 9 billion euros to the Ukrainian government to cover its immediate cash needs to keep its economy running.

The extraordinary two-day summit is to address this Tuesday the continent's energy transition to do without Russian gas, and the food crisis linked to the war in Ukraine which threatens the African continent in particular.

6:44 am: kyiv says it is regaining ground in the South

Ukrainian forces say they are regaining ground in the south, particularly in the region around Kherson, a city near Crimea that came under Russian control in early March.

"The enemy left the village of Mykolaivka, in the north of the Kherson region", says a bulletin from the Ukrainian army published overnight from Monday to Tuesday, referring to the departure in "panic" of Russian soldiers "demoralized ".

6:43 am: The noose continues to tighten on the Donbass

“The situation in the Donbass remains extremely difficult.

The Russian army is trying to concentrate its forces there to put more and more pressure on our defenders,” President Zelensky said Monday evening.

Russian forces aim to control this mining basin, which pro-Russian separatist forces backed by Moscow took partial control of in 2014.

The Russian army has been trying in particular to encircle Severodonetsk and take control of it for several weeks, in an offensive which has intensified in recent days.

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Tuesday will be marked above all by the continuation of the Extraordinary European Summit in Brussels.

The 27 have already agreed overnight from Monday to Tuesday on a gradual embargo on Ukrainian oil.

European leaders are due to discuss the continent's energy transition on Tuesday to do without Russian gas and the looming food crisis.

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