Despite extensive sanctions, Western nations continue to significantly fund Russia’s war effort in Ukraine through ...

Key Points – The war in Ukraine is effectively over, with Russia on a clear path to achieving its objectives through a ...

De-funding Russia’s war machine has long been an essential part ... More than $200 billion of that total comes from the E.U. The West has imposed tough sanctions on oil exports from Russia ...

While EU and U.S. policymakers have defended the sanctions arrangement, arguing it deprives Moscow of a “refining premium” on its fuels, the fossil fuel industry remains a lifeline for Russia’s war ...

Western leaders are starting to get serious about how to make Moscow pay for the war’s monumental damage. But not nearly serious enough, to judge from the latest plan to use seized Russian ...

EU remains the largest importer of Russian fossil fuels despite sanctions aimed at crippling Kremlin's war effort ...

while funding Russia's war budget," Kaja Kallas, the chief foreign affairs official for the EU, said. "We will propose further measures, including sanctions, to target this fleet," Kallas posted on X.

as well as Kursk inside Russia, Moscow is signalling it plans to sustain the war effort, and has hit out at the West for increasing its support for Kyiv. Putin has maintained that Ukraine must ...

His focus is Russia and Ukraine ... fleet" of 45 tankers that the West should target if it is serious about choking off revenues for Vladimir Putin's war machine, according to research just ...

Stefan Wolff is a past recipient of grant funding from ... military region for Russia and has significant economic potential that could help Russia in propping up its war economy.

Despite the West's efforts, in 2024 Russian revenues from fossil ... "We now have a situation in which we are funding the aggressor in a war that we're condemning and also funding the resistance ...