What just happened
- The US vetoed as “untenable” a plan to send Polish MiG fighters to Ukraine via an American base in Germany.
- The US and UK banned Russian oil imports while the EU refused to join a broader embargo.
- McDonalds suspended sales in 850 restaurants in Russia, 32 years after its first branch there offered astonished crowds a taste of capitalism in a bun.
- The number of UK visas issued to Ukrainian refugees rose from 50 to 760 as the number of refugees to have entered EU countries with permission to stay and work for at least three years passed 1.9 million.
