Commodities traders such as Trafigura and Vitol have helped keep Russia’s oil flowing through its Baltic and Black Sea ports in March, when some Western firms started to snub the Continue Reading
Russia warned the West on Friday that billing in roubles for billions of dollars of natural gas exports to Europe could be just days away, Moscow’s toughest response yet to Continue Reading
Germany’s industrial base, just emerging from the pandemic and unprecedented supply-chain challenges, is taking another beating with Russia’s war on Ukraine hitting its powerhouse car, chemical and precision-machinery manufacturers. As Continue Reading
London’s Mayor extended the first air quality warning since August 2020 for another day after pollution levels mushroomed throughout the week. A cocktail of high atmospheric pressure, little wind and Continue Reading
Energy Markets on War Footing Russia has choked throughput on a Caspian Sea pipeline carrying crude oil from the Tengiz fields in Kazakhstan to Russia’s Black Sea coast. Russian officials Continue Reading
While the European Union looks for ways to reduce its imports of Russian gas, flows via Ukraine remain high, at 109 million cu m daily amid lower wind energy output. Continue Reading
In February, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping declared that their friendship had no limits. Now, the war in Ukraine is testing that relationship. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explores Continue Reading
A freight train carrying medical supplies bound for Madrid departs the city of Yiwu, in China’s Zhejiang Province, in June 2020. More than a million containers set to ride 6,000-plus Continue Reading
The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion and is pledging $1 billion in new humanitarian aid, the Biden administration said on Thursday after a Continue Reading
Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of the capital Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to sieze the city are falling back on their overextended supply lines, Britain Continue Reading
