1、*FRIDAY,MARCH 4,2022 VOL.CCLXXIX NO.51WSJ.comHHHH$5.00DJIA33794.66g96.69 0.3%NASDAQ13537.94g1.6%STOXX600437.36g2.0%10-YR.TREAS.6/32,y i eld 1.843%OIL$107.67g$2.93GOLD$1,934.40$13.50EURO$1.1066YEN115.47Russia Escalates Ukraine AssaultShelling strikes nuclearplant as Kremlin stepsup attacks on targets
2、in southern regionBYJAMESMARSONMembersoftheSacklerfamilywhoownPurduePharma LP and grew wealthyfrom sales of OxyContin agreedto pay up to$6 billion to settlelawsuitsaccusingthemofhelping fuel the opioid-addic-tionepidemic,earningtheunanimous support of state at-torneys general to resolve thefamily s
3、liability and end thedrugmaker s bankruptcy case.The new settlement unveiledThursday marks an increaseSPORTSKentucky Coach JohnCaliparipivotswithupperclassmenprimedforMarch Madness.A16BUSINESS&FINANCEMusk says Tesla isopen to the UAWholding a vote aboutorganizing labor.B1USA TODAY SPORTSNEWSCOM/ZUMA
4、 PRESSA residential building shown Thursday in Borodyanka,Ukraine,in the Kyiv region was destroyed by Russian shelling.Machine-gun fire tore pastAnatoliy Kharchenko and cutdown several fellow Ukrainianparatroopers as they foughttheir way through the darknesstoward Hostomel Airport.The crack Ukrainia
5、n unit wastrying to thwart Vladimir Pu-tin s plan for a rapid takeover ofKyiv some 20 miles away.Buttheir mission was going badly.Elite Russian airborne troopshad landed in helicopters hoursearlier on the first day of Rus-sia s war against Ukraine.If theyIn the months leading up toXi Jinping making
6、commoncause with Russian PresidentVladimir Putin,the Chineseleader was focused on onecountry,and it wasn t Ukraine.His ambitions for alignmentwith Mr.Putin had one mainpurpose:presenting a unitedfront against the U.S.The re-sult,according to Chinese offi-cials,foreign-policy advisersto Beijing and a
7、n analysis ofRefugee ExodusTopsaMi l l i onIn Fi rstWeekKYIV,UkraineMoscowdeepened its military offensivein southern Ukraine on Thurs-day,penetrating the city ofKherson and pushing towardZaporizhzhia before Ukrainianssaid Russian forces shelled alargenuclearpowerplant,prompting concern from the in-t
8、ernational community aboutthe risk of nuclear disaster.Russian and Ukrainian nego-tiators agreed to establish“hu-manitarian corridors”to allowcivilians to leave besieged cities.Negotiators,however,failed toreach any agreement on anoverall cease-fire,and PresidentVladimir Putin of Russia sig-naled th
9、at he is determined tocontinue the war.Kyiv told the United NationsInternational Atomic EnergyAgency that a fire that brokeout at the Zaporizhzhia nuclearpower facility,the largest inEurope,didn t affect essentialequipment,the agency said.The report lessened initial con-cerns that the shelling damag
10、eda reactor.But Ukrainian President Vo-lodymyr Zelensky said in avideo posted on social mediathat Russia s actions show that“Europe needs to wake up.”“Only immediate action canstop the Russian troops.Do notlet Europe die in the nuclear ca-tastrophe,”he said,according toa translation posted online by
11、Ukraine s U.S.embassy.He ac-cused Russia of“nuclear terror.”Mr.ZelenskyspokewithPresident Biden about the inci-dent at the nuclear plant.Fol-lowing the call,which occurredlate Thursday night Washingtontime,Mr.Biden urged Russia to“cease its military activities inthe area and allow firefightersand em
12、ergency responders toPleaseturntopageA9By Yaroslav Trofimov,Stacy Meichtryand Andrew RestucciaMEDYKA,PolandWithindays of Russia s invasion ofUkraine,the line of cars carry-ing people fleeing to the coun-try s border with Poland was55 miles long.In wet snow and cold rain,mothersbeganabandoningtheir c
13、ars to walk for hours,prodding exhausted childrenas they dragged their strollersand suitcases along the road.Near them,jam-packed se-dans running low on gas inchedup to a modest checkpoint thatordinarily serves a half-dozenpeople at a time,often day-trippers crossing into the duty-free zone to buy c
14、igarettes.Inside the checkpoint,twoUkrainian immigration officershave been frantically trying tokeep up with one of the fastestexoduses from any country inmodern history.In a week since the war withRussia began,more than onemillionrefugeeshaveleftUkraine,the United Nations ref-ugee agency said.Most
15、headedwest into Poland,Hungary,Slo-vakia,Romania and Moldova.At the current pace,by theweekend,more asylum seekerswill have entered the EuropeanUnion in a matter of days thanin all of 2015,when 1.3 millionpeople crossed from the Mid-dle East and Africa into thebloc.That would make thePleaseturntopag
16、eA10BYDREWHINSHAWANDNATALIAOJEWSKA200mi les200kmKyivRUSSIARUSSIAUKRAINEUKRAINEBELARUSBELARUSPOLANDPOLANDROMANIAROMANIAHUNGARYHUNGARYSLOVAKIASLOVAKIAMOLDOVAMOLDOVABlackSeaBlackSeaBalticSeaBalticSea97,827547,98279,05951,26137447,800*133,009Ukrainianarrivalsinborderingcountries*Anaddi ti o n al 96,000p
17、eo ple mo v ed toRussi a fr o m th e Do n etsk an d Luh an sk r egi o n s F eb.1823.No te:Appr o xi mate figur es as o f Mar c h2.Anaddi ti o n al 88,147 peo ple h av e c r o ssed too th erEur o peanc o un tr i es.So ur c e:UNHCR c o mpi lati o no f go v er n men t r epo r tsAirport Battle DeniedMos
18、cowQuick Victorycould hold the airfield,Russiawould be able to fly in hundredsof soldiers and move rapidly toseize the Ukrainian capital,partof Mr.Putin s plan to force aquick capitulation.The Russians,protected by aconcrete barrier topped withbarbed wire,were directingwithering fire at Lt.Kharch-en
19、ko s unit.Another Ukrainianforce speeding to join the fightwas delayed.The paratroopers pressed on.“We knew what was at stake,”Lt.Kharchenko said.PleaseturntopageA8public statements,was theFeb.4 China-Russia declara-tion that the countriesfriend-ship had“no limits.”Russia s subsequent inva-sion of i
20、ts neighbor is forcingBeijing into adjusting its for-eign policy in a way that risksdamaging relations with theU.S.-led West and undoingyears of efforts to paint itselfas a responsible world leader.In Beijing,the ripple effectsof a move that may cost Chinadearly are now sinking in,saythe officials a
21、nd advisers.Someofficials say they are fearful ofthe consequences of getting soclose to Russia at the expenseof other relationshipsespe-cially when Russian aggressionagainst Ukraine is isolatingMoscow in much of the world.Already,many politiciansfrom Washington to Brusselshave grouped Beijing togeth
22、erwith Moscow as a new“axis”a term giving Western alliancesmore reason to disengage fromPleaseturntopageA12BYLINGLINGWEIPuti n Rel ati onshi p Gi vesChi naSecond ThoughtsRussia s richest men are onthe run amid a global dragnetWesterngovernmentshavecast to ensnare their yachts,villas,jets and bank ac
23、counts.In recent days,French au-thorities detained a handful ofships subject to new sanctions,including a 280-foot yacht,theAmore Vero,“True Love”in Ital-sia.They swooped in during thenight as the vessel was makingwhat they described as prepara-tions to leave port in a hurry.Mikhail Fridman,a former
24、Russian banker who wound upon the European Union s sanc-tions list,was locked out thisweek of the private-equity fundhe co-founded.Luxembourg-based LetterOne Holdings SAfroze his stake and is holdingback dividends and prohibitinghim from contacting anyone atthe fund.Alexey Mordashov,the largest shar
25、eholder of Ger-man tourism group TUI AG,and one of Russia s wealthiestpeople,resigned from its su-pervisory board after being puton the EU s list.The sanctions on individu-als are one part of a multi-front effort to hit Moscow ec-onomically after Mr.Putin sinvasion of Ukraine.Westerncapitals sanctio
26、ned banks andcompanies,and targeted Rus-sia s central bank.PleaseturntopageA10ian.They said it is owned byIgor Sechin,the sanctioned chiefexecutive of Russian oil pro-ducer Rosneft and close ally ofPresident Vladimir Putin of Rus-By Nick Kostov,Alistair MacDonaldand Betsy McKayA Gl obalHuntforRussi
27、an Ol i garchs YachtsBegi nsArms from abroad bolsterKyi v forcesA8Western compani es offerassi stance to Ukrai neA11Auto makerssupply woesare worseni ngA11Tradi ng i n Russi an bondsdefrosts a bi tA12Stocks retreat,andcrude settles lowerB1INSIDEfrom the$4.5 billion previouslyoffered by the Sacklers,
28、whosewealth has been estimated atabout$11 billion.For the firsttime,the proposed deal has thesupport of a key group of stateattorneys general who had op-posed Purdue s earlier effortsto resolve opioid-related liabil-ity,saying the Sacklers weren tpaying enough to fight opioidaddiction and deter corp
29、oratewrongdoing.The dispute between thefamily and California,Connect-icut,the District of Columbiaand other states has kept Pur-due stuck in bankruptcy andhas delayed the distribution ofbillions of dollars from theSacklers to fund opioid abate-ment programs and combat anational addiction crisis that
30、the company s flagship pain-killer helped to fuel.The family didn t admit lia-bility in the new settlement butagreed to pay a minimum of$5.5 billion and a maximum of$6 billion while ceding controlof Purdue,which pleaded guiltyPleaseturntopageA2BYJONATHANRANDLESSackl ersSettl e Opi oi dSui tsfor$6 Bi
31、 l l i onCONTENTSArts in Review.A14-15Business News.B3Crossword.A15Equities.B7Heard on Street.B10Mansion.M1-14Markets.B9Opinion.A17-19Sports.A16Technol ogy.B4U.S.News.A2-4,6Weather.A15Worl d News.A8-13s 2022 Dow Jones&Company,Inc.All Rights ReservedWhatsNews Moscow deepened itsmilitary offensive in
32、south-ern Ukraine,penetrating thecity of Kherson and push-ing toward Zaporizhzhiabefore Ukrainians said Rus-sian forces shelled a largenuclearpowerplant,prompt-ing concern from the inter-national community aboutthe risk of nuclear disaster.Russian and Ukrainian ne-gotiators agreed to establish“human
33、itarian corridors”to allow civilians to leavebesieged cities.A1,A8-12 The U.S.and Iran wereclosing in on an agreementto restore the 2015 nucleardeal,although officials fromboth countries warned thatfinal issues still needed tobe nailed down.A13 The Supreme Courtblocked Guantanamo de-tainee Abu Zubay
34、dah s re-quest to obtain evidencefrom former CIA contractorswho allegedly tortured himata“blacksite”inPoland.A3TheJan.6panelhassub-poenaed records and testi-mony from Kimberly Guil-foyle,a top fundraisingofficial on the 2020 Trumpcampaign and the fianceof Donald Trump Jr.A4AKentuckyjuryacquittedform
35、er Louisville police de-tective Brett Hankison onthree counts of wanton en-dangermentrelatedtoa2020raid during which BreonnaTaylor was fatally shot.A3TheIRSswatchdogisex-amininghowtheagencyguardsagainstfavoringlargebusinessesandglobalcom-paniesincompliancemattersaspartofabroadaudit.A4Sackler family
36、memberswho own Purdue Pharmaagreed to pay up to$6 bil-lion to settle lawsuits accus-ing them of helping fuel theopioid crisis,earning theunanimous support of stateattorneys general to resolvethe family s liability and endPurdue s bankruptcy case.A1The freeze that Westernsanctions put on Russianbond
37、markets is startingto thaw despite the loom-ing risk of the country sfirst potential default inmore than two decades.A12TheFedsPowellsaidthatRussia s invasion of Ukrainewaslikelytopushupinfla-tion,asetbacktothecentralbank sexpectationsthatpricepressureswoulddimin-ishinthecomingmonths.A2 U.S.stocks f
38、ell,with theS&P 500,Dow and Nasdaqretreating 0.5%,0.3%and1.6%,respectively.U.S.crude-oil prices settledlower at$107.67 a barrel.B1A Tokyo judge lashed outat fugitive car executiveGhosn,calling him a greedyandmaliciouscriminal.Ghosnsaid the statements provedwhy he couldn t have re-ceivedafairtrialinJ
39、apan.B1 Teslas Musk said hewas open to the UAW hold-ing a vote about organizinglabor at the company,afterlongresistingsuchamove.B1Amazon has given theFTCafast-approachingdead-lineto deliver a verdict onits proposed MGM deal.B2 Rivian is walking back aprice increase for its electrictrucksandSUVsthatw
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47、l.Readers can alert The Wall Street Journal to any errors in news articles byemailing or by calling 888-410-2667.CORRECTIONS AMPLIFICATIONSU.S.NEWSof anticipated policy actionwhen he said he would pro-poseaquarter-percentage-point interest-rate increase atthe central bank s meeting intwo weeks amid
48、high inflation,strong economic demand anda tight labor market.Consumer prices in Januaryrose 6.1%from a year earlier,according to the Fed s pre-ferred gauge.Excluding vola-tile food and energy catego-ries,so-called core inflationrose 5.2%,close to a 40-yearhigh.OnThursday,Sen.PatToomey(R.,Pa.),the t
49、op Re-publican on the banking panel,told Mr.Powell that he wasconcerned that the war inUkraine would drive inflationhigher.“I fully acknowledgenobody knows how this is go-ing to play out,but I think it sfair to say that this war haschanged the risk profile a littlebit with respect to inflation,”he s
50、aid.Mr.Powell concurred.Herepeated his view that beforeRussia s invasion of Ukrainelast week,he expected thecentral bank would raise ratesby a quarter point at its March15-16 meeting and to followthat initial rate rise with a se-ries of increases this year.“I do think it s going to beappropriate for