Turkey’s Ukraine war bill: soybean imports at risk as Erdoğan warns of global crisis
Wartime disruptions already cut Ukrainian grain deliveries to Turkey 16%—and Ankara is now pushing hard for peace talks.
Ukraine’s fuel costs spike as global tensions push inflation above forecast
February’s 7.6% reading slightly missed the NBU’s forecast—fuel was the culprit.
Bank Lviv sale shows Ukraine’s development finance model can actually work
Three development funds spent 20 years on this. Crédit Agricole spent one deal buying the result.
Ukraine needs pickup trucks more than tanks—so Norway’s mayor drove one to Kyiv on International Women’s Day
The volunteer pipeline keeping Ukraine’s army mobile is stretched to breaking point. Norway’s capital sent its mayor to help.
Oil swings $30 in a day as Iran turns Hormuz into a diplomatic weapon
From $120 to $90 in 24 hours: Iran named its price for reopening the world’s most critical energy chokepoint.
Brent at $100, Urals at $91: the Iran war handed Moscow its best oil week in years
Washington is fighting Iran and bankrolling Moscow at the same time.
Lights on, economy limping: Ukraine’s real energy reckoning in March 2026
Russia failed to freeze Ukraine this winter. All 15 thermal plants are still destroyed. And Russia has already moved on to trains.
US gives India 30 days to offload 140 million barrels of Russian crude—oil its own sanctions stranded at sea
Washington’s waiver covers crude that accumulated offshore after its own pressure campaign cut India’s Russian imports by more than a third.
EU may pay Ukraine to fix pipeline Russia keeps bombing—as Fico refuses to meet Zelenskyy first
Fico says he “wouldn’t believe Zelenskyy if he told him the sky was blue”—so he’s asking Brussels to check first.
She left politics alone so long as it left her alone. Then the occupation came
Shevchenko Prize-winning novelist’s story of a woman caught between occupied Donbas and her home village in western Ukraine—published in English for the first time.
What does a Russian air raid alarm cost Ukraine’s economy? Researchers just found out
The missiles get the headlines. The sirens do the quiet damage. Now there’s data to prove it.
Russia cut small business support by a third—then sent the tax collector
The Kremlin chose to abandon its civilian economy. Now the VAT bill arrives.
Hungary took the oil, thanked nobody, and blamed the country that sent it
MOL’s chairman says Ukraine pumped oil through Druzhba to stop a fire. Hungary accepted every barrel.
Russian manufacturers can’t find workers—but they’re cutting the ones they have
Production declined for the 12th straight month, but firms are now shedding workers, too.