Russia-Ukraine conflict Live Updates: US approves Bill for Ukraine help; Japan to section out Russian oil

Russia-Ukraine conflict Live Updates: US President Joe Biden Monday signed a bipartisan Bill to shortly ship army help to Ukraine. It revives a World War 2 period “lend-lease” technique, geared toward bolstering Ukraine and its Eastern European allies.

Meanwhile, Japan introduced that it’s going to section out Russian oil. “We would like to consider a method of phasing out over time in a way that minimizes adverse effects on people’s lives and business activities,” Japanese Industry Minister Koichi Hagiuda was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Victory Day speech, an adviser to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Moscow won’t escalate the conflict, information company AP reported. Pointing to Putin’s assertion that “horror of global war does not happen again” as he spoke about WW2, Oleksiy Arestovych, mentioned that this meant, “There will be no nuclear war. There will be no war with NATO.” He added that Moscow will try to take management of the complete Luhansk, Donetsk and Kherson areas.