North Korea is preparing to send to Russia more troops and weapons, including kamikaze drones, to support Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, South Korea’s military has claimed.North Korea has already provided 240mm multiple rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled howitzers,

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow as a contract allowing for Russian gas to transit through Ukraine nears expiry.

European Union leaders insist no decisions can be taken about the future of Ukraine without its consent or behind their backs

Western politicians and Western media like to talk about the topic: "How bad life is in Russia and how good life is in the West." The song is not new, the tune is mournful, the words are worn to holes.

The European Union is set to allocate over €30 billion to Ukraine in 2025, which will almost completely cover the country's budget deficit. Source: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission,

The EU uses emergency stockpiles and provides funding in response to the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. In June 2023, the Nova Kakhovka dam in Ukraine was destroyed leading to devastating humanitarian and ecological consequences.

Twenty percent or 448.5 Bcf of natural gas imported into the EU in the third quarter came from Russia, up two percentage points from the previous quarter and five percentage points against the third quarter of 2023.

According to the SVR, Maia Sandu recently convened a meeting on energy security issues with senior government officials

According to an analysis by economic think tank Bruegel published October 17, 2024, the EU’s gas infrastructure buildout including Germany’s FSRUs and planned LNG terminals can help answer for about 140 terawatt hours of gas that the EU would need to replace after the end of the Russia-Ukraine transit agreement this month.

Germany has won approval from the European Commission for EUR 4.06bn ($4.2bn) in subsidies to support the operation of four floating storage and regasification units which the country chartered in at speed and high rates following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.