European Union officials are meeting Monday to try to break an impasse over a proposed embargo on Russian oil imports amid continued resistance from Hungary. The EU failed to strike a deal despite a push to get an agreement before a two-day meeting of the bloc’s leaders starting Monday afternoon in Brussels. Hungary is refusing to back a compromise despite proposals aimed at ensuring its Russian oil supplies, according to people familiar with the talks. Meanwhile, Russia is developing a way to pay its Eurobond debt that would sidestep western financial infrastructure, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was quoted as saying in a newspaper interview. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited front-line troops in the Kharkiv region in his first trip away from Kyiv since Russia’s invasion. Russian troops continue to advance in the city of Sievierodonetsk in the eastern Luhansk region, according to Serhiy Haiday, the local governor. “Battles are continuing, the situation is very difficult,” he said on his Telegram channel. The city’s infrastructure has been ravaged, with 60% of residential buildings so severely damaged that they can no longer be repaired, Haiday added. NN: This does not sound to me like a war Russia is losing….. Shit the EU cannot agree on a energy strategy never mind muster up the strength to engage Russia militarily.