Daily nominations, or requests, for Russian gas deliveries through Ukraine into Europe via the Slovakian border point of Velke Kapusany rose to their highest since the end of November on Continue Reading
Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield near Continue Reading
Humanitarian organisations worked to evacuate more civilians from the devastated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Monday but hundreds of people remained trapped in the Azovstal steel works, the last Continue Reading
Finland will almost certainly apply for membership in NATO, Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde told Swedish television on Sunday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced both Sweden and its eastern Continue Reading
The European Commission may spare Hungary and Slovakia from an embargo on buying Russian oil, now under preparation, wary of how dependent the two countries are on Russian crude, two Continue Reading
German retail sales fell unexpectedly in March as the war in Ukraine leads to price increases, data showed on Monday. The Federal Statistics Office said retail sales were down 0.1% Continue Reading
European Union energy ministers will meet Monday to discuss Russia’s decision to cut gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, and debate planned new sanctions over Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The Continue Reading
Inflation has surged in Russia as sanctions ratcheted up the price of imports. Russia is assembling an economic relief package equivalent to tens of billions of dollars to soften the Continue Reading
Germany has called for a phased-in ban on Russian oil imports into the EU, stepping up pressure on Brussels to find a deal between divided member states ahead of a Continue Reading
In his two-bedroom Moscow apartment, 35-year-old start-up wizard Pavel Telitchenko spent years mulling a move from Russia, fearing the gradual rise of a police state. Then, three days after the Continue Reading
