Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the Shanghai … [+] Cooperation Organization Summit on September 15, 2022 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Russian sanctio...
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Goldman Sachs Provides Lower Oil Forecast on Fresh China Covid Outbreaks & ‘Hazy’ G-7 Russia Oil Price Cap
Goldman Sachs says that it cut its oil forecast by $10 due to some macroeconomic factors regarding China and Russia. Goldman Sachs recently cut back on its oil forecast for the fourth quarter of 2022 ...
Russia Loses 90% of Its Key European Oil Market Before Sanctions
(Bloomberg) — With just two weeks to go until European Union sanctions come into force, Russia has already lost more than 90% of its market in the bloc’s northern countries, previously the mains...
Kazakhstan Goes To The Polls, Hoping Investors Return Post-Pandemic
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev leaves a voting booth to cast his ballot at a polling … [+] station in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022. Tokayev easily beat five cand...
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Winning The Black Sea Naval War
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
Some Of Russia’s Last Good Troops Needed Three Weeks To Capture A Half Square Mile Of Eastern Ukraine
53rd Mechanized Brigade artillery in action. 53rd Mechanized Brigade The Kremlin is determined to capture all of Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. The oblast after all is the seat of ...
The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopters Sat Out The Last Campaign. They Sure Aren’t Sitting Out This One.
Ukrainian army Mil Mi-8s. Ukrainian defense ministry photo It was an open question, as Russian forces massed along Ukraine’s borders in late 2021 and early 2022, whether the Ukrainian army’s helicopte...
Russian Soldiers Are Surrendering To Ukrainian Drones. This Has Happened Before.
Russian prisoners in Ukraine. Via social media Firing missiles, dropping tiny bombs and spotting targets for artillery, the Ukrainian army’s drones undoubtedly are responsible for hundreds, if not tho...
Would Putin Launch An Electromagnetic Pulse Attack Against Ukraine?
EMI receiver or spectrum analyzer display during measurement getty The nations of Europe are on edge after a Ukrainian missile, apparently defending against Russian attacks, appears to have flown off ...
Farfetch Q3 Hit by Russia Exit, China Lockdowns
Farfetch is everywhere in luxury, not just serving as the digital platform for boutiques, but also signing deals with Compagnie Financière Richemont to eventually gain control of Yoox Net-a-porter and...
Russia and Cuba Eye Cryptocurrencies for Settlements Amid Sanctions – Bitcoin News
Both facing sanctions, Russia and Cuba are looking into alternative options for cross-border payments, including cryptocurrencies, a Kremlin advisor has unveiled in Havana. Moscow is already developin...
Oil Producers Deliver Reality Check At COP27 Climate Summit
US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry speaks at the opening of the US Pavilion during … [+] the COP27 climate conference at the Sharm el-Sheikh International Convention Centre, in...
A Russian Regiment Reportedly Lost 2,500 Draftees In Just Two Weeks Of Fighting
An abandoned Russian T-72B3 near Svatove. 92nd Mechanized Brigade The Ukrainian army’s 92nd Mechanized Brigade is killing Russian draftees as fast as the Kremlin can shove the unhappy, unfit conscript...
Ukrainian Territorials Are Wearing Down Russian Defenses In Zaporizhzhia. Are They Preparing For A Counteroffensive?
A 110th Territorial Brigade trooper. 110th Territorial Brigade A few videos circulating online and depicting the goings-on in one Ukrainian army reserve brigade are not definitive evidence of a coming...
What We Know Now About Missile Strike In Poland
When a missile struck a village in Poland yesterday killing two civilians, many social media commentators were quick to declare that this was a Russian attack on a NATO member state and NATO must now ...
How The Ukrainian Army Could Get Behind The Dnipro River And Roll Up Thousands Of Russian Troops
Ukrainian troops pass each other. Ukrainian defense ministry The Dnipro River is the biggest natural obstacle in all of Ukraine. Running north to south through major cities including the capital Kyiv,...
The Graphic Death of Yevgeny Nuzhin Underlines the Risk of Prisoner Exchanges in Ukraine
An image claimed to be of Russian combatant, Yevgenny Nuzhin while he was an inmate, circulated on … [+] social media. social media/e2w A former Russian prison inmate who defected to Ukraine aft...
Zelensky Urges World Leaders To Double Down On Russia And End War Now
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday urged world leaders gathered at the Group of 20 summit in Bali to double down on Russia and push it to end its war now, upping the diplomatic ...
Russia’s Southern Supply Hub Is Now In Range Of Ukraine’s Rockets. Expect Explosions.
Ukrainian HIMARS firing in June 2022. Ukrainian army photo Ukrainian advances in southern Ukraine could lead to, well, further Ukrainian advances in southern Ukraine. To understand why, look at Russia...
Kherson’s Liberation Is The ‘Beginning Of The End’ Of War With Russia, Zelensky Says
Topline In an unannounced visit to Kherson Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the city’s recent liberation—following Russia’s announcement it was retreating last week—the “beginning...
A Strategic Strip Of Sand. Rumors Of Ukrainian Raids. As Russian Forces Retreat, Keep An Eye On The Kinburn Spit.
Kinburn Spit. Google Maps The Kinburn Spit is a narrow finger of sand and scrub, barely three miles long, that juts from the wider Kinburn Peninsula into the Black Sea at the mouth of the Dnipro River...
Starving, Freezing, Getting Shot At By Their Own Regiment—No Wonder These Russian Draftees Surrendered
Russian draftees after surrendering near Svatove. Via social media The 92nd Mechanized Brigade is one of the best and, for the Russians, most dangerous formations in the Ukrainian army. So you can’t b...
Is North Korea open to travelers? No, but it may also depend on China
In 2008, the national anthems of both North Korea and the United States resonated throughout the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre — echoing hopes of a thawing relationship between the countries. The curta...
Easily In Range Of Ukrainian Artillery, Kherson’s Airport Was A Death Trap For Russian Troops
Chornobaivka Airport burns on March 16, 2022. Maxar Three days after the Kremlin ordered its starving, battered forces to retreat from the right bank of the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine’s Kherson ...
Putin’s Atrocities In Ukraine – Crimes With A Name
On November 14, 2022, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, the U.S. Helsinki Commission, will host a briefing on the issue of Russia’s genocide in Ukraine. The briefing comes months a...
Bank of Russia Sets Out to Regulate Digital Asset Taxation, Exchange, Still Opposed to Crypto – Regulation Bitcoin News
The Central Bank of Russia supports the development of digital financial assets but remains opposed to legalizing crypto payments, its top management has reiterated. The monetary authority is now work...
The Russians Sent Their Slow Attack Jets On Virtual Suicide Runs
Russian air force Su-25s. Wikimedia Commons The six Russian air force brigades and regiments flying the twin-rotor Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopter probably have suffered the highest casualty rate of any...
Here are the three big issues facing Ukraine as a tough winter approaches
Winter is on the way, and in war-torn Ukraine the fight against Russia appears far from over. Moscow continues to target Ukrainian power plants and stations. Grain shipments out of Ukraine have been i...
Fly Low, Get Aggressive—How Ukrainian Pilots Fought The Russian Air Force To A Standstill
Russian Su-35 aircraft intercept a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea on May 26, 2020. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa For all its profound faults, the...
How The Ukrainians Wrecked the Russians’ Best Helicopter Regiments
A Kamov Ka-52 and pilot. Russian state media It’s not totally accurate to describe the Russian air force’s Kamov Ka-52 attack helicopters as death traps. But it’s not totally inaccurate, either. The a...
Russia’s Retreat From Kherson Is Complete As Strategic Bridge Into The City Collapses
Topline Russia on Friday said its forces had completed their withdrawal from the key city of Kherson—one of the first major Ukrainian cities captured by Russian troops—but the collapse of a strategic ...