Day 6 of the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II found Russia increasingly isolated. Western officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to overthrow Ukraine’s government and replace it with a compliant regime, reviving Moscow’s Cold War-era influence.
People sleep in the Kyiv subway, being used as a bomb shelter. (AP)
The United States and European Union have levied sanctions on Russia’s biggest banks and its elite, frozen the assets of the country’s central bank located outside the country, and excluded its financial institutions from the SWIFT bank messaging system, but have largely allowed its oil and natural gas to continue to flow freely to the rest of the world.