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  Russia has vowed retaliation on Ukraine after claiming to have shot down eight US-made ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning, January 4. The Russian government sees the use of such missiles, which have a range of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles), as a major escalation. The country’s air defenses shot down the eight ballistic missiles alongside 72 …

European natural gas futures climbed the highest since October 2023 after Russian gas flows to Europe via Ukraine stopped on New Year’s Day. ADVERTISEMENT The price of the Dutch TTF, the benchmark European natural gas climbed by more than 4% to €51 per megawatt-hour, its highest level since October 2023, before easing a little, on the first trading day after …

Ukraine says it has halted the transport of Russian gas to Europe through its territory, after a five-year transit deal expired Wednesday, January 1.   The closure of one of Russia’s oldest gas routes to the European Union was expected and comes as Moscow’s war in Ukraine soon enters its fourth year. Ukraine’s energy ministry said it ended the deal …

Former Russian international footballer, Aleksei Bugayev, 43,  has been k!lled while fighting in the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. “Unfortunately, the news about Aleksei’s death is true. It happened today,” TASS news agency quoted the player’s father Ivan Bugayev as telling the Sport24 news outlet.   RIA news agency quoted Bugayev’s agent, Anton Smirnov, as saying intense fighting had …

A Russian court has sentenced Eduard Sharlot, a 26-year-old singer, to five and a half years in prison for actions deemed as protesting Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine.   The court in Samara, a city along the Volga River, found Sharlot guilty of “publicly insulting” religious believers and “rehabilitating Naziism,” according to state news agency RIA Novosti. The charges were …

Ukraine will not renew a gas transit agreement with Russian energy giant Gazprom when it expires at the end of the year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed.   The current deal, from which Kyiv earns regular income accounting for around 0.5% of its GDP, is set to end on December 31.       Pipelines through Ukraine account for about half …

A military court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, has sentenced an unnamed resident of Ukraine’s Lugansk region to 16 years in prison on charges of “high treason.” The Russian FSB security service alleged the individual had provided information about the Russian armed forces to Ukraine’s security services. The man was also convicted of aiding terrorist activities and illegally handling and transporting explosives. …

Russia’s decision to launch what Putin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine should have come earlier than 2022 and the war has made him smile less, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday during an end-of-year speech in Moscow. “We should have prepared systematically for it,” he said of the war. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February …

Russian President, Vladimir Putin has revealed he has not spoken to US President-elect Donald Trump in over four years, but is “ready” for potential talks with him, amid expectation that the new administration in Washington will push for a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine.   During the Russian president’s marathon year-end news conference, Putin also declined to say …

  Ukraine’s security service on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing the head of Russia’s chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov.   The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the detonation of an explosive device planted in a scooter next to the entrance of an apartment building in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian source who told …