Democracy Dies in Darkness

Panicked residents of Irpin, near Kyiv, are fleeing the city across a destroyed bridge, seeking to escape relentless Russian bombardment. (Video: Whitney Shefte, Alice Li/The Washington Post, Photo: Heidi Levine for The Washington Post/The Washington Post)

West takes aim at Russian oil and gas while companies halt business

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March 9, 2022 at 1:41 a.m. EST

|Published March 8, 2022 at 1:21 a.m. EST

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The Biden administration announced Tuesday it will ban imports of oil and natural gas from Russia, in one of the United States’ most far-reaching actions yet to penalize Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

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