President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a sweeping sanctions package targeting Russian officials and key pillars of its economy that is meant to punish and pressure Moscow for its ongoing war against Ukraine.
Russian defense and security firms have obtained over 50,000 sensitive goods and components made in the U.K. and the E.U. through supply chains in India, a report states.
Aversion to domestic energy so great UK has decided to exempt imports of Russian oil products rather than drill its own natural resources.
European Union ambassadors in Brussels agreed on Wednesday to approve a 90 billion-euro loan to Ukraine and a further round of sanctions against Russia, after outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lifted his threat of a veto.
The French armed forces used helicopters to board and capture a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker transiting the Mediterranean on Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised an “uninterrupted” supply of cheap oil to India after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s effort to use tariff pressure to get India to stop funding Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.
President reminded Russia “very, very tough” sanctions loom if it kills peace talks, saying Ukraine could suffer the same fate.
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he will speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Monday aimed at bringing peace to Ukraine.
Dmitrii Ovsiannikov was appointed governor of Sevastopol in Crimea by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised “healthy thoughts” from Secretary of State Marco Rubio in his Breitbart News interview.
A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.
The European Union on Monday sanctioned Russia’s shadow fleet of tankers moving liquefied natural gas through Europe.
The EU banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc over alleged propaganda and disinformation.
The U.S. and UK will begin restricting the trade of new Russian-origin metals on global metal exchanges and in derivatives trading.
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.
European Union lawmakers have called for Brussels to impose sanctions on American journalist Tucker Carlson for interviewing Vladimir Putin.
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.
President Joe Biden’s administration spared Hunter Biden’s Russian billionaire business associates from a sanctions list recently issued by the State Department.
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.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened to abandon a landmark grain deal with Ukraine if obstacles to Moscow’s exports remained.
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.
