Sanctions broaden and the fight for Ukraine becomes bloodier in the second week of war

Russia commits to a slog of a campaign, Ukraine entrenches, the West broadens sanctions but fails to escalate military aid to Ukraine, and the sanctions begin to cut both ways

The second week of the war in Ukraine saw the unprecedented sanctions against Russia broaden as companies pulled out of the Russian market, the United States stopped imports of Russian oil and the European Union laid down plans to drastically cut imports of Russian oil and gas.

Those sanctions began to make their effects felt in the West as oil prices so…