oil futures edged higher early friday to cap a volatile week buoyed as talks between moscow and kyiv appeared to make little progress   west texas intermediate crude for april delivery cl1 cl00 clj22 rose 50 cents or 05 to 10348 a barrel on the new york mercantile exchange on track for a 54 weekly fall   may brent crude brn00 brnk22 the global benchmark was up 47 cents or 04 at 10711 a barrel on ice futures europe headed for a 49 weekly decline talks between moscow and kyiv appeared to stall after signs of optimism earlier this week that fueled a reversal to the downside by crude futures which had hit nearly 14year highs last week the kremlin on friday said russian president vladimir putin told german chancellor olaf scholz in a phone call that ukraine was stalling talks with “unrealistic proposals” according to news reports meanwhile world leaders are pushing for an investigation of russia’s repeated attacks on civilian targets including airstrikes on schools hospitals and residential areas the us and its allies have hit russia with severe sanctions with washington also banning imports of russian crude western sanctions have largely attempted to exempt russian energy flows but analysts and others have warned that russian supply is likely to be sharply curtailed in the months ahead “the news from russia and ukraine with respect to the peace talks no longer sounded nearly as optimistic as it did before which has doubtless prompted the market to reassess the situation” said carsten fritsch commodity analyst at commerzbank in a note wednesday‘s forecast from the international energy agency also had an impact he said warning that the market could end up missing 3 million barrels a day of crude and oil products from russia beginning in april