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Ukraine's Oil Strikes Are Hurting Russia's War Economy

Ukraine's expanding long-range and swarm-drone campaign has already disabled 10% of Russia's oil refining capacity, cutting fuel supplies and export revenues while pressuring the core of the Kremlin's ... Read More

Russia’s War Economy Is Quietly Cracking – and Putin Knows It

Russia’s war economy is starting to show strain. As Ukraine’s drones hit targets deep inside Russia, the Kremlin is scrambling to plug mounting fiscal gaps with VAT hikes, new excise taxes and ... Read More

Cracks In Russia’s War Economy

After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting trillions of rubles into the Russian economy, the Kremlin can no longer disguise its distress. Read More

Ukraine Faces Labor Shortage As Russia's War Empties Factories And Farms

Ukraine’s need to get people to the front to fight the Russian invasion is also creating a manpower problem in the rear, with labor shortages hitting many industries and some towns virtually empty of ... Read More

What Do Russia's Burning Refineries Mean For The War In Ukraine?

More than half of Russia's major oil refineries are going up in flames, hit by Ukrainian drone attacks. So could this new wave of strikes actually change the course of the war? Oil and gasoline ... Read More

A slowing wartime economy pushes the Kremlin to tap consumers for revenue

After two years of robust growth fueled by military spending on the war in Ukraine, Russia’s economy is slowing. Oil revenues are down, the budget deficit is up and defense spending has leveled off. Read More

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine

The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board. Read More

India tops Russian oil imports via 30 false-flagged tankers: Think tank

European think tank CREA has claimed that these shipments made India the largest national destination for crude moved by Russia's growing 'shadow fleet' ... Read More

Vladimir Putin has no plan for winning in Ukraine

ON JUNE 10TH 2026 the fighting between Russia and Ukraine will have lasted longer than the first world war. That conflict, too, was supposed to have been over in a few weeks. As in Ukraine, fighting ... Read More

Trump officials try to reassure Ukraine’s negotiators over peace deal ahead of Putin meeting this week

U.S. and Ukrainian officials to continue talks on modified version of 28-point plan before Kushner and Witkoff meet Putin on Tuesday ... Read More