Three and a half years in, Russia has failed militarily, even if Ukraine is bleeding, too. Mr Putin has not even managed to overrun Kharkiv, just 35km from the border, let alone Kyiv. The flow of goods through Ukraine’s deep-sea ports surpasses pre-war volumes.

Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.

Gould-Davies, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies who has served as the U.K. ambassador to Belarus, wrote recently that foreign-policy setbacks and economic challenges have put Russia in a bind,

Ukraine is in discussions with the United States to import liquefied natural gas after Russian strikes on its gas infrastructure, economy minister Oleksii Sobolev said on Wednesday.

With Russian forces gaining slowly on the battlefield, Ukraine hopes its long-range drone campaign will help persuade Vladimir V. Putin to change course.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is facing a gas shortage and has tapped into its "rainy day" diesel reserves.

By Guy Faulconbridge, Olesya Astakhova and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Wednesday pushed back at U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that the Russian economy was going to collapse,

There are few tactics from his work to end the horrors of Gaza that Trump can emulate as he seeks to curtail Russia’s near-four-year invasion.

Kyrgyzstan’s economy grew by 10% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2025, with gross domestic product (GDP) reaching around $13.7 billion, the state statistics committee said on Wednesday. Mountainous,

The Ministry of Economy forecasts Ukraine’s GDP growth at 2.5% next year, despite the World Bank lowering its projection to 2%. — Ukrinform.