(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin forged the confrontation with the West over the Ukraine conflict as an existential battle for the survival of Russia and the Russian folks – and stated he was pressured to have in mind NATO’s nuclear capabilities.

The European Union vowed to extend stress on Moscow “till Ukraine is liberated” because it adopted a tenth bundle of sanctions on Russia on Saturday, a day after the primary anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.

FIGHTING

* Ukraine’s navy stated on Sunday that Russia carried out unsuccessful offensives close to Yahidne over the previous day, after Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claimed to have captured the village in jap Ukraine.

The village is close to Bakhmut, the place solely about 5,000 of 70,000 residents stay and which has seen among the bloodiest attritional preventing of Russia’s year-old invasion.

* Ukraine’s armed forces stated Russia retains concentrating its major efforts on conducting offensive actions alongside the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Shakhtar components of the frontline.

* Reuters couldn’t confirm the battlefield accounts.

DIPLOMACY AND SANCTIONS

* Russia’s senior diplomat to the United Nations accused the West on Sunday of “cowboy” strategies and “arm twisting” of some international locations throughout final week’s United Nations Normal Meeting vote demanding Moscow withdraw its troops from Ukraine.

* Finance chiefs of the world’s largest economies strongly condemned Moscow on Saturday for its conflict on Ukraine, with solely China and Russia itself declining to signal a joint assertion.

* French President Emmanuel Macron stated on Saturday he’ll go to China in early April, partially to hunt Chinese language assist with ending Russia’s invasion.

* The USA marked the anniversary of the invasion with $2 billion in weaponry for Kyiv and new sanctions towards Russia aimed toward undermining Moscow’s capability to wage conflict.

* Belarus, a small Russian ally bordering Ukraine, has as many as 1.5 million potential navy personnel exterior its armed forces, a senior official was quoted as saying on Saturday.

OIL

* Russia has halted provides of oil to Poland through the Druzhba pipeline, Daniel Obajtek, chief govt officer of Polish refiner PKN Orlen, stated on Saturday.

* Ukraine plans no extra outages to ration electrical energy if there are not any new Russian strikes and has been capable of amass some energy reserves, the vitality minister stated on Saturday, after months of interruptions brought on by bombings.

ANNIVERSARY

* TIMELINE- Main developments since Russia’s invasion

* Ukraine’s Zelenskiy has defied Putin towards the chances

* Putin, safe in energy, has set the stage for lengthy conflict

* A 12 months on, Ukraine and its authorities haven’t simply survived. They’ve fought again

* Toughened by conflict’s scars, Kyiv presses on

* Graphics of a 12 months of conflict within the markets: How the greenback, vitality and meals costs swirled

* Russian financial system holds up however the street again to prosperity could also be lengthy

* Moscow’s decades-old gasoline ties with Europe lie in ruins

* Prime manufacturers pull out of Russia, however items straightforward to seek out

* Can U.S. assist for Ukraine final?

* Exterior backers pour billions into Ukraine

* How has China stood by ‘no limits’ accomplice Russia?

* A 12 months into conflict, older refugees working out of hope

* Life and loss of life in Mariupol – a survivor’s story of conflict

* Household mourns Bucha sufferer who grew to become image of conflict

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