Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that he will travel to Turkey this week in an attempt to jump-start negotiations on ending Russia’s war, which began nearly four years ago. Turkey provided a setting for low-level talks between Ukraine and Russia earlier this year,

Berlin-based energy analyst Thomas O’Donnell told Newsweek that the U.S. moves to punish Russian energy exports combined with Ukraine’s repeated strikes on Russia’s oil refineries threatens to "disable Russia as a petrostate."