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October 10, 2025 11:01 AM

How Ukraine’s European allies fuel Russia’s war economy

European nations, including France, are among the staunchest supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Several have also stepped up their imports of Russian energy which pump billions of euros into Moscow's wartime economy. Well into the fourth year of Russia's war against Ukraine, the European Union remains in the precarious position of financing both sides in the conflict. Its large deliveries of military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv are countered by commercial payments to Moscow for...

October 9, 2025 9:02 PM

Putin urges Central Asian states to step up trade with Russia

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the leaders of five Central Asian states to boost their trade with Russia, as Moscow seeks to build back its influence in a region that is also being courted by China. Russia's total trade turnover last year with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan was over $45 billion - a "good result" but well short of the level of its bilateral trade with Belarus, which has a fraction of their combined population, Putin said. He told a s...

October 4, 2025 4:52 PM

Russian strike hits passenger train in Ukraine, injuring dozens

A Russian drone strike hit a passenger train at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, injuring dozens of people, officials said on Saturday. "A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out. He said dozens of passengers and rail workers were wounded. Regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said the attack hit ...

October 3, 2025 3:16 PM

Russia targets Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in overnight air attack

Russia launched a massive overnight drone and missile assault on several Ukrainian regions, primarily targeting energy infrastructure, Ukraine's energy ministry said on Friday. The attack included 381 drones and 35 missiles that targeted facilities in the eastern Kharkiv region and also central Ukraine's Poltava region, where the country's main gas production facilities are located. Authorities provided no other details about the attack or the damage caused, but top private energy provider DTE...

September 28, 2025 1:51 PM

Russia launches major drone, missile attack on Ukraine, still ongoing

Kyiv came under heavy drone and missile bombardment early on Sunday, in what independent monitors said was one of the biggest Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital and surrounding region since the full-scale war began. At least three people were killed and about 10 injured in the city, Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration, said on the Telegram messaging app. One of the dead has been identified as a 12-year-old girl, although that has not been officially confirmed, Tkachenk...

September 26, 2025 12:27 PM

Russia accuses NATO, EU of waging ‘real war’ on it via Ukraine

Russia's top diplomat accused NATO and the European Union of using Ukraine to declare a "real war" against his country in a speech at the United Nations on Thursday that Britain dismissed as "false fantasy world distortions." He spoke at a G20 meeting of foreign ministers at the U.N. two days after U.S. President Donald Trump signalled a harsher stance on Moscow, praising Ukraine's war effort and saying NATO allies should shoot down Russian jets that enter their airspace. Tensions have mounted...

September 20, 2025 6:06 PM

Russia hits Ukraine with barrage of drones, missiles, kills 3, Kyiv says

Russia unleashed a major drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight, killing three people, injuring dozens more, and damaging infrastructure and residential buildings, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday. Despite diplomatic efforts to find ways to end the war that began when Russia invaded in February 2022, the fighting has intensified in recent months. In a statement on the Telegram app, Zelenskiy said Russia had launched around 580 drones and 40 missiles targeting infrastructur...

September 18, 2025 3:18 PM

Two Ukrainian drones attacked major Russian petrochemical complex

Two Ukrainian drones attacked the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil processing and petrochemical complex, one of Russia's largest, in Russia's Bashkortostan region, Radiy Khabirov, the regional head, said on his Telegram channel on Thursday. Ukraine has intensified its drone attacks on Russia's oil and gas infrastructure since early August as it has become increasingly frustrated with the direction of peace talks which the Kremlin says have now been effectively paused. "We are assessing the extent...

September 17, 2025 9:29 AM

Trump administration clears first Ukraine arms aid paid for by allies

The Trump administration's first U.S. weapons aid packages for Ukraine have been approved and could soon ship as Washington resumes sending arms to Kyiv - this time under a new financial agreement with allies - two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. This is the first use of a new mechanism developed by the U.S. and allies to supply Ukraine with weapons from U.S. stocks using funds from NATO countries. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby has approved as many as tw...

September 15, 2025 2:38 PM

Russia warns Europe: we will go after any state which takes our assets

Russia on Monday warned European states that it would go after any state which sought to take its assets after reports that the European Union was floating the idea of spending billions of dollars worth of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. After President Vladimir Putin sent his army into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with the Russian central bank and finance ministry and blocked $300-$350 billion of sovereign Russian assets, mostly European, U.S...