Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency reporters abroad reported that US President Biden announced on the 8th that the United States would impose an energy embargo on Russia and stop importing oil, natural gas and coal from Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the 8th to support nationals and enterprises under sanctions. —— US President Joe Biden announced on the 8th that the United States will implement an energy embargo on Russia and stop importing oil, natural gas and coal from Russia. In his speech at the White House that day, he said that the energy embargo against Russia would lead to the continued rise of domestic gasoline prices in the United States and increase the cost of living of American people. Biden warned us oil and gas companies not to take the opportunity to bid up prices. Volokin, President of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament), said on social media that the United States extended its sanctions against Russia to the energy embargo in order to seize the European market. The losses caused by this practice will be paid by European enterprises and people. —— The British government announced on the 8th that it would stop importing oil and petroleum products from Russia before the end of the year. The Elysee Palace of the French presidential palace told the media on the same day that France will not immediately stop importing Russian natural gas and hopes to gradually get rid of its dependence on Russian oil and natural gas in the long run. Earlier in the day, the EU announced that it would reduce its natural gas imports from Russia by two-thirds this year. —— Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree on the 8th to take special measures in the field of foreign economic activities, requiring the import and export of specific types of food and raw materials to be banned before December 31 this year. The list of relevant food and raw materials will be determined by the Russian government. Earlier in the day, Putin also signed a law including a package of socio-economic measures to support nationals and enterprises under sanctions. —— The Russian Defense Ministry said on the 8th that the Russian army has started the "quiet mode" again since 10:00 Moscow time on the 9th to ensure the humanitarian corridors for evacuating civilians from Kiev, Chernigov, sume, Kharkov and Mariupol. The Russian Defense Ministry believes that Russia and Ukraine should establish continuous contact on the evacuation of civilians. —— Mizitsev, head of Russia's national defense command center, said on the 8th that in the past day, Russia withdrew more than 5000 people from Donbas and other dangerous areas without Ukraine's participation. In addition, more than 2 million Ukrainians and foreigners made evacuation requests to Russia. He said that Ukrainian nationalists used cruel means to prevent people from withdrawing to Russia through humanitarian corridors. —— According to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Konashenkov earlier on the 8th, in the past 24 hours, Russian forces have destroyed 158 targets of Ukraine's military infrastructure. Konashenkov also announced that in order to help civilians evacuate, the Russian army implemented a "quiet mode" from 10:00 Moscow time on the same day, and opened humanitarian channels in Kiev and other places. —— According to Ukrainian state news agency, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina veleshuk said at a press conference on the 8th that a humanitarian channel was opened from sume state to Poltava state on the same day. From 9:00 to 21:00 Kiev time on the 8th, the Ukrainian army entered the "quiet mode" along the local humanitarian channel. Veleshuk said on the same day that Ukraine did not agree to open humanitarian channels in the direction to Russia and Belarus. —— Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman zaharova said on the 8th that the research and development of biological weapon components had been carried out in the Ukrainian laboratory close to the Russian border, and the Ukrainian side's emergency clean-up of traces of the military biological program funded by the United States has been confirmed. Zaharova said that Russia is in favor of resuming the work of formulating a legally binding verification protocol to the biological weapons convention. —— German Chancellor Scholtz discussed the situation in Ukraine with US President Biden, French President macron and British Prime Minister Johnson by video on the afternoon of the 7th. The German federal government announced that night that the leaders of the four countries said that civilian safety must be put in the first place, and any efforts to solve the Russian Ukrainian crisis through diplomatic means should be supported. At the same time, they called on Russia to immediately cease fire and withdraw troops completely. (Xinhua News Agency)