🇺🇦🇷🇺 A Ukrainian proposal to become a neutral country but retain its own armed forces “could be viewed as a certain kind of compromise,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday, hinting at possible progress in peace negotiations. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will also deliver a virtual address to the U.S Congress today. https://bloom.bg/3u4o4Wq

💵 Russia would default on its dollar debt due this Wednesday if it pays dollar coupons in rubles, says credit assessor Fitch Ratings. https://bloom.bg/37BGAxZ

🇺🇸🇪🇺 U.S. President Joe Biden plans to visit Europe next week for talks with NATO allies and to take part in a summit of European Union leaders as Russia presses on with its invasion of Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3qaGqnE

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. President Joe Biden pledged to send drones and missiles to Ukraine, and called Putin a "war criminal." Follow the latest: https://bloom.bg/3tr3sZH

🏦 The Federal Reserve kicked off its most aggressive tightening in decades, with a quarter point interest hike, while signaling six more to come this year. https://bloom.bg/3tgyQK0

💻🏭 The global fight over chips is set to heat up further as the West spends billions in a race with China. It's a contest that could easily backfire. https://bloom.bg/37H5f4p

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🇺🇦🇷🇺 A Kremlin spokesperson denies a report of major progress in peace talks with Ukraine, but discussions will continue on Thursday. https://bloom.bg/3tkxj5Y

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has so far not gone to plan, but a combination of geography, better troops, shorter supply lines and weaker opposition means Moscow’s campaign has progressed enough in the south to show what President Vladimir Putin at least intended. https://bloom.bg/3u3hhfK

🇷🇺💵 Russia's Finance Ministry says $117 million interest payment due on two dollar bonds has been paid to correspondent bank. https://bloom.bg/3igdfLA

💰In an exclusive interview, Mikhail Fridman—one of Russia’s original oligarchs—argues that punishing billionaires like him shows a troubling misunderstanding of power in Russia. https://bloom.bg/3ibtKIS

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💬 Many U.S. officials believe Beijing is tacitly backing the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the matter. China denies support for the Ukraine war and says Russia didn’t request arms. https://bloom.bg/3iiWkbi

📉 Chinese stocks retreated after a historic two-day surge. Investors are taking a step back after Beijing’s pledge to stabilize financial markets brought a knee-jerk jump in equities. https://bloom.bg/3KRGbWu

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🇷🇺Russia repeated a threat to target arms convoys in Ukraine sent by the U.S. and its allies. https://bloom.bg/3igkgvI

☎️Military commanders from NATO countries are working the phones with their Russian counterparts to make sure the U.S. and its allies don’t get dragged into a war over a misunderstanding on the Ukrainian border. https://bloom.bg/3Ifz8oU

💰Russia’s Finance Ministry said coupon payments on two dollar bonds are with Citigroup, and that the nation has fulfilled its obligations to investors, even as bondholders in Europe say they have yet to receive the cash. https://bloom.bg/3Jh3yIF

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🇨🇳 Embattled real estate developer China Evergrande Group, along with its other units, suspended trading in Hong Kong on Monday morning. https://bloom.bg/3IrXX0I

🏡 One year after Britain opened its door to Hong Kongers, those who have arrived are finding their worlds turned upside-down. They have more space to live but earn less; there's more freedom but uncertainty on what to do with it. https://bloom.bg/3JIbtz7

🛢 And here’s how Russia’s war in Ukraine is choking the world’s supply of natural resources: https://bloom.bg/36vQKzC

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❌ Ukraine rejected a Russian demand that its forces lay down their arms Monday and leave the besieged southern port of Mariupol, which has been under intense Russian bombardment. https://bloom.bg/3JsNvHH

📉The Kremlin said an EU ban on imports of Russian oil "would hit everyone," especially people in Europe. https://bloom.bg/36cXcvu

👀 Silicon Valley’s wealthiest Russian is carefully—very carefully—distancing himself from Putin. https://bloom.bg/3woLl8C

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Hello, here's the latest on China's worst air disaster in nearly a decade.

✈️ All 132 passengers and crew on board a China Eastern flight are feared dead after the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed in China's southwestern Guangxi province. Follow the updates here: https://bloom.bg/3Ivmr9m

⬇️ Crash specialists are baffled at the aircraft's unusual plunge — falling at over 30,000 feet per minute before halting and climbing briefly, data show. https://bloom.bg/3ttHANd

🔍 Investigators are searching through the wreckage in a remote mountainous region for clues about the crash's causes, with no possibility ruled out so far. Here's what they will be looking for. https://bloom.bg/3wstIEU

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👀 U.S. President Joe Biden says Russia’s use of a hypersonic missile against Ukraine is a sign President Vladimir Putin is growing desperate, and warned about new indications of possible cyberattacks. https://bloom.bg/3ir5t1v

🪖 Russia is refocusing its military campaign in the port city of Mariupol, where the situation has reached a grim new stage.

📈 Steel is the other big commodity shock from the war in Ukraine as bombs fall on the blast furnaces of Mariupol. https://bloom.bg/3isYqp6

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✈ China Eastern's jet traveled at close to the speed of sound before crashing, according to flight-track data, potentially damaging its black boxes. Read the latest: https://bloom.bg/3wvWqEK

🇺🇦 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will take part in a special NATO summit this week, while U.S. President Joe Biden said more sanctions on Russia will be announced during his trip to Europe. https://bloom.bg/3NohzXA

🛏 In Shanghai, traders are sleeping in offices to avoid lockdowns affecting their work as Covid surges in the city and volatility grips Chinese markets. https://bloom.bg/3wuH7fl

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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Russia is only beginning to feel the harshest effects from sanctions and that more measures are on the way. https://bloom.bg/3is0GwT

🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Japanese lawmakers to expand their already unprecedented sanctions regime against Russia, saying he needed more help to turn back the “tsunami of brutal invasion.” https://bloom.bg/3D6KY3u

🏦 Wall Street is scrambling for the exits in Moscow and billions are at stake, with a dozen lenders including Raiffeisen Bank, Societe Generale and Citigroup having about $100 billion of combined exposure to Russia. https://bloom.bg/353itHt

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🇸🇬 Breaking: Singapore will lift most restrictions for fully vaccinated visitors, part of its biggest steps yet to ease Covid restrictions. https://bloom.bg/3IzNJf8

🇭🇰 Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s avoidable Covid catastrophe is the product of multiple policy failures. Here's how it all started with Beijing's crackdown. https://bloom.bg/3qvuf5c

🇷🇺 Russia's stock market is set to partially reopen after being shut for a month — the longest break since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 — and traders are bracing for chaos. https://bloom.bg/3qy1BQJ

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🇺🇸 A month into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden and his national security team are meeting NATO, European and G-7 allies in Brussels to discuss ways to pressure Vladimir Putin to withdraw his forces. https://bloom.bg/3qx2E3p

🪦 NATO estimates at least 7,000 Russian soldiers have likely been killed in the first month of combat during the Kremlin-ordered invasion of Ukraine, and the total number could be as high as 15,000. https://bloom.bg/3LfMa7P

🇨🇳 Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken to many leaders since Russia's invasion of Ukraine including Vladimir Putin, just not Volodymyr Zelenskiy. https://bloom.bg/3DmckTL

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✈️ At least one piece of the Boeing 737 that crashed in China appears to have broken loose well before impact, adding mystery to the plane’s fatal dive. Here’s the latest: https://bloom.bg/3JypNtL

🇨🇳 EU officials suspect China may be ready to supply technology, including chips, to Russia to help soften the blow of sanctions. https://bloom.bg/3Lcx9U7

💰 ➡️ 🏭 The world's richest people are also the biggest polluters, new data show. https://bloom.bg/3NkHxLp

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🤝 The U.S. and EU reach a deal to help Europe wean itself off Russian fuel. https://bloom.bg/3NoS73Z

🇺🇸 U.S. officials fear Russian President Vladimir Putin may lash out dangerously as his troops lose momentum in Ukraine and Western sanctions begin to bite. https://bloom.bg/3qzKI8o

🏡 In Dubai’s swankiest neighborhoods, property brokers say inquiries from Russians looking for villas and apartments are skyrocketing, including Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. https://bloom.bg/3wBW67j

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping exposed the great illusion of capitalism, and unless the U.S. and its allies mobilize to save it, the second great age of globalization is coming to a close, writes John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge for Bloomberg Opinion. https://bloom.bg/3qzTu6n

🏆 It was a wild night at the Oscars. Will Smith got up on stage and smacked presenter Chris Rock after he made a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, shocking the audience. He then won best actor for “King Richard." https://bloom.bg/36PdeM8

💸 Hong Kong’s tycoons are spending billions on property bargains in mainland China as their counterparts there battle a credit crisis. https://bloom.bg/3uBI1nI

🔄 Vanguard is stumbling in the absence of Jack Bogle. For his diehard fans, what’s at stake is the very soul of the $8 trillion mutual-fund giant. https://bloom.bg/3tJkWjV

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🇺🇸 U.S. President Joe Biden sought to clarify his call for the removal of Vladimir Putin, saying he wasn’t seeking regime change after European allies raised concern and critics said he was further inflaming tension with Russia. https://bloom.bg/3uyuU75

🗣 Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams plan to meet in Turkey this week with big differences remaining on terms for a potential cease-fire deal after more than a month of fighting. https://bloom.bg/3iNOoPj

✂ The U.K. seeks to cut public sector contracts with Russian suppliers, as Boris Johnson’s government seeks to ramp up pressure on President Vladimir Putin. https://bloom.bg/3qGLGQl

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🏥 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian negotiators suffered a suspected poisoning after meetings in Kyiv at the beginning of the month. https://bloom.bg/3iQ0dVb

🖐️ Will Smith apologized to Chris Rock for slapping the presenter at the Oscars. The Academy opened a formal review of the actor, adding it would explore possible “consequences” for his actions. https://bloom.bg/3LejSKS

💰 Hong Kong bankers who stuck around when many left due to the city's restrictive Covid rules are being handsomely rewarded with a pay bonanza. https://bloom.bg/3LhLjTS

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📞 Moscow says it would sharply cut military operations near Kyiv and Chernihiv after negotiators from Ukraine and Russia wrapped up discussions in Turkey aimed at de-escalating the war. https://bloom.bg/3LiMSRA

☮ As NATO allies discuss the terms of any potential peace deal, signs of strategic splits are emerging from within their ranks. https://bloom.bg/3qJm3y4

❌ Energy ministers from the Group of Seven industrialized nations unanimously reject Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand that natural-gas contracts be paid in rubles. https://bloom.bg/36Hhs8K

↔️ Hedge funds that took money from sanctioned Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich are now stuck: They can’t give it back to him, sell his stake or collect fees on it. https://bloom.bg/3Nx5WNV

🎮 Hackers stole nearly $600 million from a blockchain network connected to an online game in one of the biggest crypto attacks to date. https://bloom.bg/3qHhXGT

🍽️ It's time to start making reservations. These were just named the 50 best restaurants in Asia. https://bloom.bg/3LplKQV