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Wall Street stocks tumbled and oil prices surged as White House warnings of a possibly imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine reverberated through financial markets. Markets lurched on Friday during a briefing by US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who said a Russian invasion could “begin at any time,” including during …

Ukraine, likely named after the Slavic word for “borderland,” has long been a crossroads for peoples, civilisations, trade — and military invasions. As Russia amasses its troops at the Russia-Ukraine border, energy is the latest resource to become weaponised. Russia supplies about 40 per cent of the European Union’s natural …

European officials are scrambling to lock down energy supplies they would need to keep their economies churning if hostilities around Ukraine imperil natural gas piped from Russia, and have turned to the U.S. for help finding backup sources beyond Moscow’s control. In recent weeks, as Russia has positioned more than …

Oil and gas flows aren’t likely to be significantly impacted from the tensions building in Ukraine, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The bank’s base case is “no disruption,” Jeff Currie, Goldman’s global head of commodities research, said in a Bloomberg TV interview with Shery Ahn and Paul Allen. Sanctions …

If there is a further escalation from Russia in Ukraine, Berlin together with its partners “will take joint suitable measures” against the Nord Stream II gas pipeline, Germany’s foreign minister warned on Monday. Speaking at a news conference in the capital Kyiv after meeting with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba, …

Under the pessimistic scenario Ukraine may face gas import problems during this heating season and will have to siphon off Russian gas from the transit pipeline, the former head of the Naftogaz company, Andrey Kobolev, has said. “Ukraine is unable to do without considerable amounts imported gas in the first …

Germany has said the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia will not be allowed to operate in the event of any new “escalation” in Ukraine, under an agreement between Berlin and Washington. “In the event of further escalation this gas pipeline could not come into service,” Germany’s new Foreign …

In the showdown over Russia’s implicit threat to invade Ukraine, the United States and European allies are eyeing what they see is a major vulnerability for Moscow — the just-completed Nord Stream 2 pipeline to carry natural gas to Europe. US officials made clear Tuesday after President Joe Biden’s two-hour …

Germany’s new government will have to “take another look” at the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline because it’s a “strategic project” aimed at putting Ukraine under pressure, the incoming German vice-chancellor has claimed. Speaking to Munich-based daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, Robert Habeck explained his belief that the pipeline was “never …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to soothe fears over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and reaffirmed support for Ukraine’s role as a gas transit country. In particular, this was discussed during a joint press conference between Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Reuters reports. “I made clear that …