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One year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the West continues to pile sanctions on Moscow.

But what about the ones already in place? Those were designed to put pressure on the Kremlin and

Putin to hopefully pull out of Ukraine. That hasn't happened. So there are questions about

whether this campaign is having the effect along the timeline that the West wanted.

And how iPhone thieves are targeting a basic feature to gain access to your digital life.

Plus, how one ice cream seller plans to raise the heat to lower its emissions.

It's Friday, February 24th. I'm Ann Marie for Toly for the Wall Street Journal.

This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today.

NATO's biggest European members, Germany, France and the UK are considering a defense

pact for Ukraine to incentivize peace talks with Russia. That's according to officials

from those three governments. Our Germany correspondent, Boyan Pachevsky, has more on our exclusive

reporting. The diplomats, the officials who are drafting these plans, what they want to achieve

is to give President Zelensky an incentive to negotiate after this kind of much-a-weighted

offensive that Ukraine is about to launch, to liberate more territory. And once they've expanded

their footprint, so to speak, the idea is that they will have to seek a ceasefire to kind of take

a breath. The idea is this would encourage President Zelensky to go back home and to say,

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