Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.

A day after fighting in Ukraine expanded on another front, with the military announcing a counteroffensive around the southern port city of Kherson, European leaders will be gathering in Brussels for a two-day summit focused on the war in Ukraine.

On the agenda of the European Council meeting is a package of sanctions against Russia, including an oil embargo. Hungary has been holding up an E.U. embargo on Russian oil imports, though Germany’s vice chancellor and energy minister said last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he was “positive that Europe will find a solution within the next days.” As of Sunday, that still hadn’t happened.

On Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky made a rare journey outside Kyiv to visit the country’s northeast, near Kharkiv, which is still under shelling.

“I want to thank each of you for your service,” he told his forces. “You risk your life for all of us and our state.” Read more

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