KYIV: Russian forces have taken partial control of a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said on Tuesday, hours after European Union leaders struck an agreement to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow's oil imports.

Sievierodonetsk is one of several urban hubs that lie on Russia's path to capturing the Donbas' Luhansk region, where Moscow has shifted the bulk of its firepower since failing to capture the capital Kyiv in the war's early stages.

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