The U.S. Treasury tightened its restrictions on Russian financial transactions on Monday, when more than half a billion dollars in bond payments were due. After Russian forces withdrew from Borodyanka, a commuter town near Ukraine’s capital, families are searching the rubble for bodies. Chilling aerial video from Ukraine adds to the evidence of Russian atrocities against civilians and undercuts their denials of wrongdoing. The Treasury secretary plans to highlight risks of rising food and energy prices at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. A growing number of families, convinced the war could last for years, have decided that facing danger at home is better than life as a refugee. A new report says Russia needs to seize the city or its campaign to capture eastern Ukraine “will likely fail.” Experts say the hackers’ intentions might not be to actually trick anyone, but to erode confidence in Ukrainian media outlets and institutions. 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