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Wednesday, 24 August 2022, is a bitter-sweet day for us Ukrainians. It marks the 31st anniversary of our country’s post-USSR independence. But sadly, it will also be exactly six months since Russia invaded our country, killing Ukrainian civilians, seeking to destroy Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and violating our right as an …

Oil prices declined on Monday over the double whammy of increasing demand woes and the rising dollar value, discouraging investors in the market trading in more expensive US dollar-indexed oil. International benchmark Brent crude traded at $95.12 per barrel at 10.08 a.m. local time (0708 GMT) for a 1.65% decrease …

The United Nations chief has called for an immediate end to all military activity around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for renewed shelling. Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive …

The 165th day of Russian aggression and war against Ukraine is coming to an end. Unpunished evil always returns and commits a bigger crime. Unfortunately, the lessons of Russian aggression against Georgia on 8 August 2008 and the beginning of the war against Ukraine in 2014 were not learned by …

Russian gas transit through Ukrainian territory may total around 40 mln cubic meters on Saturday, according to data released on the website of the Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU). Nominations for transit of Russian gas for July 9 via the gas distribution station Sokhranovka are absent, whereas nominations …

Ukrainian military forces targeted offshore oil and gas drilling platforms in the Black Sea on Monday, the country’s officials and Russia-installed head of Crimea have said. Oleksiy Honcharenko, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, first broke the news on Telegram, which was later confirmed on the same platform by Sergei Askyonov, who …

Ukrainian gas transmission system operator GTS said on Wednesday it was ready to increase the volume of gas transit through the Sudzha entry point to supply the EU. This comes as the continent faces cuts to Russian gas-supply via the Nord Stream pipeline. “In order to help prepare European countries …

Ukraine hopes to make €1.5 billion from electricity exports to the European Union by the end of the year and earn to more in the future after obtaining the right to export its energy there, a Ukrainian energy ministry adviser said on Wednesday (8 June). Former Soviet Ukraine’s electricity grid …

Russian gas producer Gazprom said on Sunday its supply of gas to Europe through Ukraine via the Sudzha entry point stood at 44.1 million cubic metres (mcm), up from 43.96 mcm on Saturday. An application to supply gas via another major entry point, Sokhranovka, was rejected by Ukraine, Gazprom said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin reported to Austria on Friday that Russia would meet its natural gas delivery commitments and was ready to negotiate a prisoner swap with Ukraine, according to Reuters. President Putin told Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer over the phone that all gas deliveries would be completed in full. …