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The latest US sanctions on Russia’s energy sector impact China and India, altering trade dynamics.The sanctions target Russian oil giants and tankers, raising oil prices to a four-month high.China and India may seek oil from other regions, while Russia might offer discounts.The US’ latest move to hit Russia’s energy revenues…
Russia’s weak response in Kursk shows Putin’s leadership still has a major flawRussia’s response was slow, allowing Ukraine to take territory, and it hasn’t put a general in charge.Putin doesn’t want a situation where “any general could claim credit for being the victor,” an expert told BI. Russia’s weak response…
A former close ally of Russia said that President Vladimir Putin’s NATO-style alliance, far from offering security guarantees, now “creates threats” for his country.Armenia recently froze its membership in the six-nation Collective Security Treaty Organization of post-Soviet states, which has been seen as Putin’s answer to NATO.The CSTO also includes…
Nikol Pashinyan, the prime minister of Armenia, one of six member states of the CSTO, made the statement during a press conference on Saturday, according to local media reports.”Armenia has frozen its participation in the CSTO at all levels,” he said, according to a translation by US think tank the…
Ukraine’s military leadership shared details Tuesday on how much of Russia’s territory its troops have captured since their invasion of the Kursk region two weeks ago, and it is more than Moscow’s forces have seized in Ukraine since the start of the year, according to available data.Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander-in-chief…
Ukraine says it struck and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine and damaged a number of prized S-400 air defense systems in Crimea.In a statement on Telegram, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said the Kilo-class submarine Rostov-on-Don was hit in the port of Sevastopol.”The boat sank…
It began with Timur Ivanov, Russia’s then-deputy defense minister, who was arrested after being accused of taking bribes “on a particularly large scale.”Then came Lt. Gen. Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the defense ministry’s personnel directorate. He was arrested after more than 100 million rubles (over $1 million), gold coins, and…
The NATO member most aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to alter its membership in the Western military alliance so that it can avoid aiding Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion.Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, told state radio on Friday that “our lawyers and officers are hard at…
