Ukraine’s anti-corruption court upholds 6-year term for ex-tax chief in gas scheme
Appeals chamber confirms sentence nine years on, with the clock nearly out.
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Overcrowded, understaffed, overpriced: Kyiv’s wartime kiosk wave collapses
An oversaturated market, customers who got poorer, workers who aren’t there, and then the electricity bill.
50% profit tax, no dividends, no new licenses—Eastern European fintechs are buying Ukrainian banks anyway
Eastern European fintechs are betting on Ukraine’s reconstruction while the war continues.
Ukraine files extradition request with Israel for Midas suspects—outcome far from certain
Both suspects are Israeli citizens. Israel almost never extradites its own.
Kremlin-linked analysts confirm Russia’s freight collapse is structural—not a seasonal dip
Russia’s railways show a civilian economy at its weakest since 2009.
Ukraine runs out of war funding in June—blocked from outside, inside, and below
Hungary is blocking billions from outside. Parliament from inside. And the government tried to fire the anti-corruption official the EU requires to stay.
Why is Russia asking its billionaires to fund a war its $190 billion defense budget should cover?
Kerimov pledged $1.2 billion. The Kremlin called it spontaneous.
EU fertilizer imports from Russia are up 14%. PepsiCo opened a Russian factory. The chips are still flowing.
After five years of sanctions, new data shows Europe’s ledger still tilts toward Moscow.
What holds Ukrainian labor market together if not conditions—and how long can it last?
Higher wages aren’t buying loyalty—merely time.
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.
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.