Russia Sanctions

The EU is pressing ahead with a plan to use the profits generated from billions of euros of Russian assets to buy weapons for Ukraine.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Chevron CEO Mike Wirth stated that despite all the sanctions on Russia, “Russian oil kept coming into the market.” And that “The sanctions that were imposed on Iran have not been enforced.” Wirth

The Biden administration forecast that its sanctions against Russia would be crippling. To put it mildly, this has not worked out as planned.

Europe to import more LNG from Russia than ever before, with billions of dollars spent buying energy despite the Ukraine war, and sanctions.

Saudi Arabia could be selling the EU Russian oil products at a major markup, effectively undermining the bloc’s sanctions, an MEP has suggested.

Various government officials in Europe are reportedly furious at the Hungarian government after it announced it would be blocking further sanctions against Russia.

The EU is preparing new sanctions against Russia, which will reportedly include firms from China accused of assisting Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

A company linked to Russia is set to help continue the work of a major nuclear project operating in Germany.

Western sanctions against Moscow have insulated the Russian financial system from the banking crisis, the Kremlin claims to believe.

PRAGUE (AP) – Thousands of people in the Czech Republic rallied against the government Saturday, protesting high inflation and demanding an end to the country’s military support for Ukraine. A new political group, PRO, organized the rally at Prague’s Wenceslas

Warm hubs have sprouted across Britain by the thousands this winter as soaring food and energy prices drive millions to turn down the thermostat or skimp on hot meals.

Russia held its position as the largest coal supplier to Germany last year, despite Berlin being on the opposite side of the war in Ukraine.

Shortages of fruits and vegetables in UK supermarkets could last for months amid high energy prices, a leading farmers’ organisation said.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union agreed Saturday to impose new sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine targeting more officials and organizations accused of supporting the war, spreading propaganda or supplying drones, as well as restricting trade on products that could be used by the armed forces.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, just 8.5 per cent of Western businesses operating in Russia have actually left, despite many announcing their departure from the country.

LONDON (AP) – The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations, with inspections of ships falling to half what they were four months ago and a backlog of vessels growing as Russia’s invasion nears the one-year mark.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A week before the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s U.N. ambassador claimed that the West is driven by its determination to destroy Russia and declared: “We had no choice other than to defend our country – defend it from you, to defend our identity and our future.”

Over four in ten Germans believe the sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine have done more harm to their country than Russia.

Naftali Bennett, the Prime Minister of Israel towards the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year, says the West “blocked” a ceasefire he was helping to broker early in the war.

Britain is increasing purchases of Indian oil amid the Western sanctions war with Russia – but much of it is likely refined from Russian product sold to India at a discount. 

Anti-Brexit Member of the European Parliament and former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt has labelled Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a “traitor” for suggesting the Ukraine war would end if weapons shipments were stopped.

This year, former President Donald Trump was proven right in his critiques of the globalist green agenda of the European Union and its reliance on Russian energy, which following the war in Ukraine have both been exposed as devastating failures of leadership.

A newly released Eurobarometer survey conducted by the European Parliament has revealed that under half of Greeks support the European Union’s stance on Ukraine.

Global use of coal climbed to a record high as the energy crisis in Europe saw some supposedly ‘green’ countries forced to burn coal.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has slammed to green-obsessed “idiots” running the country as the National Grid warms up two coal-fired reserve power plants in case of shortages.

The Swedish government has called on Swedes to save electricity, citing the risk of power disconnections, saying the energy situation in the country has become “acute”.

Around 700,000 households in Ireland are now in energy poverty as a result of the ongoing European Union gas crisis, MPs have claimed.

A federation of French supermarket chains has warned of significant waste of fresh products in the event of possible power cuts in the country this winter, with those in rural areas much more likely to face outages.

Rough, a gigantic British gas storage facility in the North Sea which the government allowed to go to the wall in 2017, is being gradually brought back to life as the energy crisis bites. 

The Olaf Scholz government has mishandled “everything” during the energy crisis, resulting in economic calamity, a German MEP told Breitbart.

Antifa activists brawled with police on Saturday during an attempt to disrupt a protest against the sanctions war with Russia.

Thousands of people rallied in Prague on Friday to protest the Czech government’s continued support of sanctions against Russia and call for an early election so that a new government can negotiate with Moscow before the winter energy crunch hits.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has denied Russian allegations that the Royal Navy directed Ukrainian drone strikes against the Black Sea Fleet and facilitated the “terrorist attack” on the Nord Stream pipelines.

Britain’s Royal Navy helped to execute the “terrorist attack” which damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines from Russia to the European Union, the Russian defence ministry has alleged.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) – Voters in Slovenia on Sunday cast ballots to elect a new president of the European Union nation, with three main contenders leading the race but no clear winner in sight.

HONG KONG (AP) – A superyacht connected to sanctioned Russian tycoon Alexey Mordashov has anchored in Hong Kong as Western governments move to seize yachts connected to Russian businessmen.