Ukrainian strawberry prices drop 21%—but carrots and potatoes climb
Cheaper berries, costlier carrots—Ukraine’s wartime produce market moves in different directions in the same week.
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Russia wants €47 million from the company arming the country it invaded
The contract Moscow wants money over built the training center where Putin's troops rehearsed for Ukraine.
Hungary unblocks $7.7 billion in EU arms payments after dropping two-year veto on Ukraine aid
Prime Minister Péter Magyar's cabinet reversed a Viktor Orbán-era block, with the immediate sum a first tranche of more than €40 billion in queued claims.
Europe weighs freezing Russia’s oil price cap as the Iran war threatens to loosen it
Brussels could override the automatic formula that would otherwise let the ceiling jump from $44.10 to at least $65 a barrel in July, Bloomberg says.
What keeps Ukraine’s groceries expensive when the summer harvest should make them cheap?
Even with the household electricity tariff frozen flat.
EU approves nearly €2.8 billion for Ukraine after positive assessment of its fourth-quarter 2025 reform progress
The tranche follows the sixth payment of €2.3 billion approved in December 2025 and brings total Ukraine Facility disbursements since 2024 to €26.8 billion.
Russian refining output fell 9.2% in April as Ukrainian drone strikes hit fuel plants
Moscow stopped publishing fuel output. Rosstat’s own index registered the drop regardless.
Why is Russia preparing to ration jet fuel? Refining just hit a 16-year low
The diesel decision is still split among officials. Refiners told to curb foreign sales.
Discount supermarkets and pharmacies dominate Ukraine’s resilient companies ranking
New YouControl–Top Lead study shows wartime growth in survival-economy sectors.
UK sanctions crypto exchanges and “A7 network” in crackdown on Russian evasion systems
Officials say Moscow has increasingly turned to shadow financial systems and crypto channels to sustain wartime spending as sanctions tighten.
A Russian banker hid in Brittany as a Ukrainian refugee—France just gave him to Lithuania
Ten months in a Breton village. Now 10.5 years in Vilnius.
US pressure flows to Kyiv, Vilnius, and Warsaw—never to Minsk itself
Bombed country rejects relief for the regime hosting Russian drone launches.
Spain pledged €1 billion to Ukraine—then helped block NATO’s plan to count it
Four other allies blocked the metric, and six frameworks now run uncompared.
Why are EU farmers still protesting? Subsidies, not Ukrainian imports
Brussels imposed trade quotas in 2025—the CAP fight is the next one.
EU will return to buying Russian gas once war ends, new Hungarian PM Magyar predicts
The new prime minister told Rzeczpospolita the calculation is set by competitiveness and geography, contrary to the bloc's three-year phase-out plan.
Kazakh court authorizes forced collection of $1.4 billion from Gazprom for Ukraine’s Naftogaz
A Zurich-seated tribunal ordered Gazprom to pay $1.37 billion in principal for unpaid transit services in June 2025.
Frontline tool Ukraine can’t fight without: 5,000 pickups now procured through largest-ever open tender
The Defense Procurement Agency will run the process in stages through framework agreements, with first deliveries expected by end of year.
Ukraine’s steel capacity fell fourfold after Russia destroyed Azovstal. Now EU’s new quota could cost it €1 billion more
Brussels offered Ukraine 713,000 tonnes duty-free. Ukraine shipped 2.65 million tonnes to the EU last year.
A pro-government think tank wants Russia’s central bank chief replaced—the trap stays
The trap doesn’t care who chairs the bank.
Ukraine retrains workers over 50 as the younger labor force vanishes
The new strategic reserve has gray hair.