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a new barrage of sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, which include bans on investments in the Russian energy sector, luxury goods exports and imports of steel products from Russia.
Russian businessmen Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven, oligarchs who amassed their wealth before Putin came to power, were also put under sanctions.President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that Belarus had intercepted a missile fired at it two days ago from Ukraine, but that it would resist what he called attempts to draw it into the conflict across the border.
“There’s nothing for us to do there, and we haven’t been invited,” Lukashenko was quoted as saying. “I want to emphasise again … We are not going to become involved in this operation that Russia is conducting in Ukraine.”Ukraine planned to make a new attempt to deliver supplies to the besieged city of Mariupol on Tuesday as the first convoy of civilians allowed out by Russia reached safety and the Red Cross issued a dire warning about the situation.
Ewan Watson, spokesperson of the International Committee of the Red Cross , told a U.N. briefing in Geneva that the operation would be carried out with the Ukrainian Red Cross but was not underway yet. He noted there had been delays with similar evacuations from Mariupol, where he said people are “essentially being suffocated in this city now with no aid’.
“The work is difficult and in the current situation the very fact that they are continuing is probably positive,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “We don’t want to make predictions. We await results.”Warning: Video contains graphic content. Firefighters work to control fires and rescue residents of an apartment building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine after it was hit during Russia's bombing of the city. At least four civilians have been killed in the attack.
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