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In a post on X, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nausėda slammed what he called a "blatant breach of international law and territorial integrity."

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening

Russia is targeting UK space infrastructure, and in particular military satellites, on a weekly basis, according to the head of UK Space Command.

Energy markets dominated headlines Thursday as a fresh wave of U.S. sanctions targeting Russia's oil giants sparked a sharp rebound in crude prices and lifted energy shares.

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

Oil prices are rising once more as investors absorb the Trump administration’s new sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil producers, Lukoil and Rosneft, an action that has added new geopolitics to an already volatile market.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:OXY) shares are trading higher Thursday as prices rise after the U.S. imposed sanctions on two Russian oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.

December WTI crude oil (CLZ25 ) today is up +2.97 (+5.08%), and December RBOB gasoline (RBZ25 ) is up +0.0693 (+3.83%). Crude oil and gasoline prices are moving sharply higher today for a second day, with crude posting a 2-week high and gasoline posting a 3-week high. Crude prices soared...

Russia has long used harsh weather as a defensive ally. During Napoleon’s 1812 invasion, his Grand Army was defeated as winter closed in – the ground became impassable and logistical support to his army collapsed. Similarly, Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa in 1941-42 was halted by heavy rains and deep mud followed…