Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.

The E.U. approved plans to lower a price cap on Russian oil and ban transactions with 22 more Russian banks, pressing ahead with sanctions without the U.S.