Today’s Russia/Ukraine Update

🇺🇦 President Biden is set to meet with other NATO leaders in Brussels today to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Western leaders are expected to unveil a new round of sanctions against Russia, along with new measures that tighten existing sanctions.

• Between 30,000 and 40,000 Russian troops have been killed, wounded, taken prisoner or are missing in Ukraine, according to a senior NATO official.
• Ukraine’s military said it has destroyed 97 Russian planes, 121 helicopters and 24 aerial drones since the war started.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky said roughly 100,000 Ukrainians are trapped in Mariupol with “no food, no water, no medicine” in the midst of constant Russian shelling.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin’s appointed climate envoy, Anatoly Chubais, resigned from his position and has left the country, a Kremlin spokesperson confirmed yesterday.
• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance will agree to a “major increase” in troop presence on its eastern flank at a summit later today; since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, NATO has readied 140,000 troops in the region.
• Secretary of State Antony Blinken formally announced that the US gov’t believes Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine.

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