How tight is Russia’s fuel crisis? Altai now caps each car at one fill a day
Drivers had gamed the midnight reset to take two rations. This week, the Siberian republic shut the…
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Russia’s strikes stall Ukraine’s grain corridor as farm prices fall
World wheat price is climbing on the supply scare—yet the grain stuck in Ukraine's ports fetches…
Read at the original source →Russia’s ship strikes stall Ukraine’s grain corridor. The damage is moving inland
Not one ship passed through the corridor on 22 July, at the height of harvest. The choke is now…
Read at the original source →Ukraine’s strikes left Crimea’s prepaid fuel coupons worthless—and the biggest chain won’t refund them
It is invoking a 14-day return law a Russian lawyer says doesn’t apply—he calls it unjust…
Read at the original source →Washington taxes Russian goods at the same rate as Norway’s
It is a blanket forced-labor measure, not a Russia policy—and the sanctions that would hurt Moscow…
Read at the original source →Germany’s Zeitenwende stops at the Rosatom deal in Lingen
A licensed nuclear deal and a secret Baku channel surfaced in the same month. They are not…
Read at the original source →Ukraine’s defense minister explained how the country buys weapons—after he was sacked
A sacked minister spent 90 minutes explaining how Ukraine buys shells. He told more than the…
Read at the original source →Russia will read shops’ cash registers to police food prices it can’t tame
Unable to bring down food prices, Russia is building a system to watch them instead.
Read at the original source →Ukraine shut a quarter of Russia’s grain exports—the world’s wheat money now flows to Russia’s competitors
Ukraine’s Azov campaign built a paradox: the world pays more for wheat because Russia cannot ship…
Read at the original source →Russia offers farmers boiler fuel for tractors—Ukraine’s strikes wiped out clean diesel
Russia’s Agriculture Ministry is offering farms fuel 90 times dirtier than the diesel they bought…
Read at the original source →Ukraine’s army chief broke his silence—an apology, a warning on soldiers’ pay, and one small number
The army chief apologized to Fedorov—and revealed only 2,000 soldiers signed the new contracts.
Read at the original source →Ukraine’s protesters set a 24 July deadline as Zelenskyy weighs replacing his army chief
Organizers gave the government four days before nightly rallies begin.
Read at the original source →Why Russia is importing gasoline made from its own oil
To keep its pumps supplied, Moscow has written India’s gasoline price into its own tax code.
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