What's happening in Ukraine on Saturday: Austria's leader says he expects more European Union sanctions against Russia but is defending his country's opposition so far to cutting off deliveries of Russian gas.
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Austria, which gets most of its gas from Russia, is one of the countries that have been resisting a halt to deliveries. Questioned about that Saturday, Nehammer said that EU sanctions are becoming increasingly "accurate" but that "sanctions are effective when they hit those they are directed against, and don't weaken those imposing sanctions against the one who is conducting war.
The company said Saturday that evacutions will continue from the stations in Slovyansk and Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region and Novozolotarivka in the Luhansk region. "There are pilots in prison who had maps with civilian targets to bomb. There are also investigations being conducted based on the remains of the dead," he said in a translation provided by CBS.
Zelenskyy said he spoke with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen Friday and urged the EU to impose a full embargo on Russian oil and gas. The official says that the U.S. believes Russia has lost 15 to 20 percent of the combat power it had assembled along Ukraine's borders before launching its invasion Feb. 24.WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden's chief spokesperson on Friday called the Russian missile attack on a train station in eastern Ukraine "another horrific atrocity" by Russian forces but stopped short of calling the action a war crime.
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