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Vladimir Putin Will Meet The Austrian Chancellor Today

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It's the first face to face meeting with an EU leader since the war began.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to meet the Austrian chancellor, in his first face-to-face talks with an EU leader since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Karl Nehammer says he hopes to help build bridges between Moscow and the former Soviet state - and stop what he's calling a 'war of aggression'.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president's warning Moscow could launch a full-scale military offensive in the east within days.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says nearly a thousand places of education and almost 3-hundred hospitals have been destroyed in the conflict.

Elsewhere, The European Union is drafting proposals for a possible embargo on Russian oil, according to the Foreign Affairs Minister.

Simon Coveney, along with his Lithuanian and Dutch counterparts, want to see the sale of oil to the bloc cut off, as part of a fresh round of sanctions against Russia.

The proposals will be discussed at a meeting in Luxembourg today.

Minister Coveney says he is hopeful it will be considered:

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