Russian gas stopped flowing to Europe via Ukraine at the start of the year over Moscow's invasion of its neighbour. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Gazprom's board is proposing that about 1,600 managers and administrators be cut from its headquarters at St. Petersburg, citing recent challenges.
The United States is now supplying liquefied natural gas to Ukraine, a move implemented in the final days of the Biden Administration.
The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, proposed a scheme that would solve the issue of energy supply to Transnistria. He voiced it at a joint briefing with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who arrived in Kiev today.
Flows of gas via the Turkstream pipeline unaffected after air defences downed the drones, defence ministry in Moscow says
Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine launched six ATACMS missiles overnight at the Bryansk region, but that all of them were downed by air defenses. The ministry also said that 146 Ukrainian drones had been shot down outside the conflict zone over the last day.
"I will be 100% on board with taking sanctions up," Treasury Secretary-pick Scott Bessent told lawmakers on Thursday.
Before his election victory, the US President said he would have a deal in place on his first day in office, if not before. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Poland's president has said that gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored, even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal. Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines,
Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. But some experts say this image of resilience is a mirage crafted by the Kremlin.