Five weapons, 57 days: how Budapest escalated against Ukraine after one Russian drone strike
Kyiv’s Foreign Ministry says gas imports from Hungary haven’t stopped yet—and that Ukraine has contingency plans ready.
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Ukrainian grain was stolen, relabeled Russian, and sold to a UN food program supplier—the paperwork said nothing about Mariupol
The same Russian family builds attack drones for Russia’s war on Ukraine and exports stolen Ukrainian wheat. Some of it reached a UN food program supplier in Turkey.
Russia sells its oil while arming the enemy Washington is bombing
Russian oil is moving. Iranian is not. The difference goes straight to Ukraine’s front line.
Gold down 27%, Urals up 71%—Russia’s sanctions hedge melts as its oil budget fills
The war filling Moscow’s oil coffers is also eroding its sanctions hedge.
Why oil dropped 13% on a deal Iran says never happened?
Trump blinked. Iran said he blinked alone.
Europe faces its emptiest storage in years as the pre-war gas cushion runs out
The pre-war cushion ends this week. Pakistan goes dark by the end of the month. Europe may reverse its Russian gas ban to survive what comes next.
Russia couldn’t fix its oil revenues. The US Air Force did it.
First-half March data show Russia’s fossil fuel revenues up 14%, as the Hormuz closure reversed India’s retreat from Russian crude.
Ukraine pauses rate cuts as Middle East oil shock rewrites inflation forecast
The NBU had one cut behind it and more planned. Then oil prices spiked.
Three years of wartime growth—built almost entirely on government spending
Three years of wartime growth—but the engine is government spending, not a recovering economy.
Running restricted goods to Russia used to get you sanctioned. Apparently it now gets you unsanctioned.
Cleared entities include a Turkish network serving Russian intelligence services and a UAE firm that shipped manufacturing equipment to Russia.
South Korea’s $8 million bet: Ukraine’s postwar railway will look nothing like the Soviet one
An $8 million Korean grant is funding the blueprint for Ukraine’s break from Soviet-era rails.
Ukraine’s graphite plant proves Western supply chains can bypass China—one African batch at a time
Chinese dumping shut it down. African ore brought it back.
Why Ukraine may lose a fifth of its harvest—and what two wars have to do with it?
Two wars have halved Ukraine’s fertilizer output and spiked import costs 54%. The farm lobby says a 20% harvest loss is likely.
Sanctions finally squeezed Russia’s oil revenues in half. Then Iran sent prices back up—three weeks too late.
The Iran windfall arrived three weeks after Q1 closed. Now Moscow is eyeing the war budget.
The US waiver was meant to stabilize markets. Russia’s oil income jumped $890 million in a week.
Bloomberg data shows the $28 penalty Western sanctions built into every Russian barrel has nearly vanished.
The EU introduced fertilizer tariffs to cut Russian war revenues. Budapest wants them suspended. The election is in 27 days.
Budapest wants Russia’s fertilizer revenues restored. It’s blaming Iran.
Two weeks of someone else’s war earned Russia more than a month of someone else’s sanctions cost it
Zelenskyy says the windfall—compounded by US sanctions relief—gives Putin more room to keep fighting.
Zelenskyy calls European pipeline pressure “blackmail”—and a sanctions rollback in disguise
The president says some European leaders are conditioning weapons supplies on Ukraine restoring Russian oil revenues.
Naftogaz wins $1.4 billion Gazprom case—now comes the harder part
Switzerland’s highest court closed Gazprom’s last appeal. Collecting is another matter.
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.