Ukrainian pork enters Vietnam, Philippines, and Singapore as EU loses Asian ground
Three Asian markets open to Ukrainian pork. Carrots spike 13% a week at home. Both point to the same missing infrastructure.
Russia’s 20% windfall tax breaks Putin’s promise—again
Oligarchs offered donations. Moscow chose compulsion, with oil at a four-year high.
Lying flat might be worse than crouching. After four years, Ukrainians know things you don’t.
Some people will die. This time, maybe it will be you.
Ukraine MPs vote themselves untracked monthly cash inside an IMF-mandated tax bill
$4,555 per MP per month, no reporting, no liability—signed into law on 15 April.
Ukraine’s executives were most optimistic since the invasion. Oil had other plans.
The results capture a moment that no longer reflects current conditions.
Emergency boilers sat in storage all winter. Now Ukraine is rethinking the whole approach.
Russia’s energy campaign failed to break Ukraine. Kyiv has until October to build something stronger than luck.
Kazakhstan hires Chinese firm to replace Shell and Eni as Ukrainian strikes hit Russia’s pipeline
Kazakhstan just replaced Shell and Eni with a Chinese construction firm at a key gas field. The Ukrainian drone campaign against Russia’s oil pipeline is the reason.
US restores Russia oil sanctions—except for the Russian refinery keeping US military jets in the air
Russia’s oil sanctions are back. Whether they bite is another matter.
The €35 billion Hungary lost while Orbán picked fights with Brussels
Two pots, €2 billion already gone, and a deadline in August.
Ukraine spent a year beating wartime inflation. A different war just reversed it.
Fuel costs surged 23% in March as the Middle East war pushed prices past the central bank’s forecast—and a rate hike is now on the table.
Mark Dixon: “We must declare the Economic World War on Russia”
Four years into Russia’s war on Ukraine, Mark Dixon thinks the West is losing the economic fight—not because the tools don’t exist, but because they’ve never been used at full power.
Oil jumped 8% as Trump’s Hormuz blockade undid the ceasefire crash
Talks collapsed in Pakistan. A naval blockade replaced a truce. For Russia’s war revenues, the brief window of relief is over.
Russia couldn’t take out Ukraine’s electricity. Now it wants the water.
After failing to freeze Ukraine with energy strikes, Moscow has shifted its sights—Kyiv isn’t waiting.
Vladislav Inozemtsev: A collapse is not imminent
Economist Vladislav Inozemtsev on oil windfalls, Ukrainian strikes, and why the war will be won on the ground