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By providing arms but avoiding military intervention western leaders are prolonging this hideous conflict, says former BBC Moscow correspondent Angus Roxburgh

KHARKIV, Ukraine — Moscow on Wednesday turned off the natural-gas spigot to the front-line Eastern European states of Poland and Bulgaria, signaling its willingness to take sharp economic aim at those who aid Ukraine, where Russian forces rained shells in the east as they pressed ahead with their devastating 2-month-old…

Adviser says ‘debts have to be repaid’ for Russia’s war but does not admit Ukraine was responsible for blasts

On Wednesday, oil was steady after Russia cut gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. However, lingering concerns about Asian COVID-19 related lockdowns (especially in China) weigh on economic growth, and oil demand constrains the prices, writes Reuters. Brent crude futures rose $0.26, or 0.30%, to $105.25 a barrel by 0823 GMT. U.S.…

Moscow announced the move in response to the UK sanctioning 386 members of the lower house of the Russian parliament.

Ukraine has accused Russia of trying to create unrest in a Moscow-backed separatist region of ex-Soviet Moldova where recent blasts have raised fears of a spillover of the Ukraine war.

The Parkinson's theory was sparked in November 2020 when political analyst Professor Valery Solovei cited Kremlin sources when he claimed tyrant Vladimir Putin is suffering both thyroid cancer and Parkinson's

Moscow-backed region in Moldova, which borders Ukraine, is in the news after a series of explosions

Russia's Gazprom says it has halted gas deliveries to EU members Poland and Bulgaria, ostensibly because they refused to pay in Russian roubles. Ever since Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine began to hobble the Russian economy, fears had mounted that Moscow would use its energy supplies as a…