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Russia’s ultimate political survivor faces a wartime reckoningRussia to begin shipping through port of Mariupol, officials sayZelensky awards medal to Patron, a bomb-sniffing dogRussian soldiers suspected of atrocities in Bucha are targets of new U.S. sanctionsAs war grinds on, the definition of victory remains murky Volunteer rescue crews evacuate elderly Ukrainians from front lines Updates from the battlefield: Russia, Ukraine trade blows in Luhansk and KharkivCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Ukraine, vows to help moreE.U. oil ban stalled as Hungary continues to hold up sanctions Ukrainian ambassador heckled during V-E Day commemoration in BerlinG-7 nations pledge phaseout of Russian oil and gasSenior U.S. diplomat visits embassy in Kyiv to mark Victory in Europe DayUkrainian ambassador: ‘We’re preparing for everything’ with Putin’s speechSeveral dead after civilian convoy is attacked, police sayBono and U2 bandmate the Edge perform in Kyiv metro stationRussia’s ultimate political survivor faces a wartime reckoningRussia to begin shipping through port of Mariupol, officials sayZelensky awards medal to Patron, a bomb-sniffing dogRussian soldiers suspected of atrocities in Bucha are targets of new U.S. sanctionsAs war grinds on, the definition of victory remains murky Volunteer rescue crews evacuate elderly Ukrainians from front lines Updates from the battlefield: Russia, Ukraine trade blows in Luhansk and KharkivCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Ukraine, vows to help moreE.U. oil ban stalled as Hungary continues to hold up sanctions Ukrainian ambassador heckled during V-E Day commemoration in BerlinG-7 nations pledge phaseout of Russian oil and gasSenior U.S. diplomat visits embassy in Kyiv to mark Victory in Europe DayUkrainian ambassador: ‘We’re preparing for everything’ with Putin’s speechSeveral dead after civilian convoy is attacked, police sayBono and U2 bandmate the Edge perform in Kyiv metro stationUZHHOROD, Ukraine — President Biden and leaders of the Group of Seven nations vowed to phase out, or altogether ban, the import of Russian oil in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, they said after a video meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.The move is intended to hit the “main artery” of Russia’s economy and deny President Vladimir Putin “the revenue he needs to fund the war,” the White House said. Questions persist about how much blame Shoigu should bear for the Russian military’s failures — as opposed to Russia’s uninformed leaders and intelligence chiefs, widely seen to have miscalculated how much Ukrainians would resist.Russia is poised to begin shipping goods through the port of Mariupol in coming weeks, officials said Sunday, signaling that Moscow will soon try to capitalize on the strategic value of the ruined southeastern city where it carried out a weeks-long siege that killed an estimated 20,000 civilians.Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin and the leader of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, toured the port in recent days, Pushilin said on Telegram. In a video Pushilin shared, officials said significant work remains before the port can be brought online.The Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank, said the visit by a top Russian official probably is “indicative of the Kremlin’s broader desire to capitalize on Mariupol’s port access and integrate the city’s transport capabilities into Russia’s regional economic agenda.”Zina Pozen contributed to this report.Patron wagged his tail excitedly and barked as he was awarded a medal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday for his bomb-detection services.The pint-size Jack Russell terrier has won hearts at home and abroad since the start of this year’s invasion for his role sniffing out land mines and educating children about the dangers posed by the explosives, which Russian troops scattered along their path of retreat from northern Ukraine.Describing him as a “small but very famous sapper,” Zelensky said in a statement after the ceremony that teaching children to avoid land mines “is now one of the most urgent tasks.”Dogs have been used for demining since World War II because of their ability to detect ordnance faster than humans. The Ottawa Convention that banned their use has been signed by more than 160 nations, though notably, not by major military powers including Russia, the United States and China.Patron received his award during a news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who made a surprise visit to Ukraine on Sunday and toured the northern town of Irpin, which was heavily damaged during the Kremlin’s attempt to seize Kyiv at the start of the invasion.Trudeau announced an additional $50 million in military aid during his visit, including funding for demining operations.“Even if the dog barked at me, we’re helping fund that,” he quipped during the Sunday news conference, prompting laughter from those in attendance.Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report.The Biden administration announced on Sunday new sanctions targeting Moscow and its allies, including visa restrictions on about 2,600 Russian and Belarusian soldiers and military officials, and penalties on three Russian state television stations.The White House and State and Treasury departments announced the measures after President Biden and leaders of the Group of Seven nations met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.The visa bans, which apply to 2,596 members of the Russian military and 13 Belarusian military officials, include personnel suspected of taking part in the massacre of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv that has become synonymous with the war’s grisly toll, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.The sanctions are part of the administration’s effort to punish Russian President Vladimir Putin and to “hold to account those involved in his war of choice, including those suspected of taking part in atrocities and human rights abuses against civilians,” Blinken said in a statement.The Treasury Department also said it will impose new restrictions on three Russian-owned and controlled TV stations — Russia-1, Channel One and NTV — that will prevent American companies from providing them with equipment or advertising.And the White House said it will roll out a new rule designed to prevent Russia from accessing “items and revenue that could support its military capabilities,” including industrial engines, motors and bulldozers.As the war in Ukraine grinds through its third month, the Biden administration has tried to maintain a set of public objectives that adapt to changes on the battlefield and stress NATO unity, while making it clear that Russia will lose, even as Ukraine decides what constitutes winning.But the contours of a Russian loss remain as murky as a Ukrainian victory. And of course, he was shocked,” Markushyn wrote.Canada’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, and Chrystia Freeland, the deputy prime minister, also were pictured in the photos that Markushyn shared.Trudeau’s office told The Washington Post that he was in Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and “reaffirm Canada’s unwavering support for the Ukrainian people.”Trudeau also helped raise the flag over the Canadian Embassy, nearly three months after it suspended operations.#BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Kyiv, where he has just announced the reopening of the Canadian Embassy"Having the Canadian flag fly over the streets of Kyiv once again is yet another testament to the strength and solidarity of Canadians and Ukrainians” pic.twitter.com/ZfqlAlybQTAt a news conference with the two heads of state, Zelensky thanked Trudeau for promising more humanitarian and military assistance, including demining Ukrainian areas where Russian forces had left ordnance and munitions.Trudeau announced that Canada would remove trade tariffs on Ukrainian imports for the next year and add sanctions on 40 individuals and five entities, including Russian “oligarchs, close associates of the regime, the defense sector, all of them complicit in Putin’s war.”Canada, home to the second-largest Ukrainian diaspora after Russia, has imposed sanctions on “more than 1,000 individuals and entities from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus since February 24, 2022,” according to a news release that Trudeau’s office sent Sunday afternoon.Markushyn thanked Trudeau on Sunday for supporting Ukraine and sought his help in organizing the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada to help rebuild infrastructure in Irpin. “So today we’re banning the provision of accounting services, management consulting, marketing — all services that are used to operate multinational businesses, but also to potentially create workarounds from sanctions or to hide ill-gotten wealth.”The United States also announced widening restrictions on industries that could support Russia’s military capabilities, including the motor and boiler sectors.A senior American diplomat on Sunday visited the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, which personnel departed a few days ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February.A senior State Department official said Chargé d’Affaires Kristina Kvien and a small group of diplomats and security personnel traveled to Kyiv to mark Victory in Europe Day.Reporters in the Ukrainian capital saw diplomatic personnel and security entering the U.S. mission.The visit didn’t signal an official reopening of the embassy, but the Biden administration plans to do so and has pledged to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that U.S. diplomats will return.In a phone call Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, that the U.S. diplomats had gone to the embassy “to conduct diplomatic engagement in advance of the planned resumption of Embassy Kyiv operations, as the Secretary pledged to President Zelenskyy they would during his most recent visit to Kyiv,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.Blinken also discussed with Kuleba the continuing supply of U.S. defensive materiel to Ukraine, including under a recent bill passed by Congress, Price said.Ukrainian officials in recent days have praised that assistance, provided under the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act. They and senior U.S. officials have said that the rapid supply of weapons is crucial to Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russian forces in the east.Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, said Ukraine is prepared for Russian President Vladimir Putin to say anything in his Russian Victory Day remarks on Monday.“We know that there are no red lines for the regime in Moscow.

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