The European Union (EU) remains unable to agree on ending supplies of Russian gas, Germany’s economy minister says
Ministers are due to have emergency talks, but Hungary has made it clear it will block consensus
Revenues from the supplies – millions of euros a day – are used to fund Russia’s war in Ukraine
Some 100 people evacuated from a besieged steel plant in the southern city of Mariupol are due to arrive in Ukraine-held areas
Hundreds more civilians remain trapped there and President Zelensky has said he hopes further evacuations can take place
The evacuees had been sheltering there with fighters for weeks
A BBC correspondent in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, where Russia is focusing its offensive, says Moscow’s troops are advancing slowly
Source: BBC
