NBC News
Russia has warned the E.U. not to use the $245bn worth of assets in the European Union, most of which are held by Belgium-based financial clearing house, Euroclear.
But without a boost in funding Ukraine’s finances could haverun dry in a matter of months.
On the battlefield, Russia is engaged in “positional warfare” not maneuvers designed to make “rapid large scale gains,” according to an analysis this week by the Institute for the Study of War,a Washington-based think tank.
Russian forces have often spent months trying to seize “small and mediumsized settlements,” it said, adding that its forces had been fighting in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk for almost 140 days.
