Your Evening Briefing: Europe Pushes Back on Putin’s Gas Cutoff

Russia fired missiles at a bridge across the Dniester estuary west of Odesa for the second consecutive day, a Ukraine railway official said. The bridge provides access to Transnistria, a small section of Moldova controlled by Russian soldiers and Moscow-aligned rebels where recent attacks have analysts warning of Kremlin false-flags. At the same time, fires and explosions inside Russia, including locations far from the border, may indicate Ukraine is taking the war to the Russian homefront.

The U.S. has lifted some restrictions on sharing intelligence with Ukraine as it confronts the renewed Russian military assault in the east and south. Russian military officials said at the end of March that they would shift their focus to taking full control of the Donbas region after a month of fighting yielded limited territorial gains in the western parts of the country, including an attempted siege of the capital, Kyiv. The expanded sharing by the U.S. is reportedly intended to help Ukraine defend and potentially retake territory in the regions now under threat.