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Russia's largest oil company's net income drops by 73% in 2025
Rosneft's net income fell by 73% to 293 billion rubles ($3.6 billion) last year due to high taxes and interest rates, as well as geopolitical factors, the company said.
Exclusive: Russia's shadow fleet using Starlink, Ukraine calls for SpaceX to take action
Vessels of Russia's shadow fleet are using Starlink to communicate and coordinate, a Kyiv Independent investigation has revealed.
Exclusive: Inside Russia's shadow fleet
The vessels are old, their hulls streaked with rust, and their ownership obscured behind layers of shell companies. Yet the tankers that make up Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, the armada used to move sanctioned oil across the globe, are kept running with modern Western technology including Starlink, an investigation by the Kyiv Independent can reveal. To gain an insight into how the shadow fleet operates, the Kyiv Independent spoke to two Ukrainian sailors who claim they unwittingly became p
Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashes over occupied Crimea, killing 29
A Russian An-26 transport aircraft crashed in occupied Crimea late on March 31, Russian Telegram media channels reported, killing 29 military personnel on board.
Russian drones attack western Ukraine's Khmelnytskyi, Lutsk, damage Nova Post terminal
Russia attacked the city of Khmelnytskyi overnight on April 1, damaging a commercial site and a residential building was damaged by shelling in Lutsk, authorities and media reported.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,298,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The number includes 1,060 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
About Crimea
Russia invaded Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in February 2014 amid the deadliest days of the EuroMaidan Revolution. Around 30,000 Russian troops crossed into Crimea, taking hold of the peninsula by early March 2014. Russia has continued to occupy Crimea ever since. Crimea covers an area of around 27,000 square kilometers (10,400 square miles), roughly the same size as the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
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Ukraine will supply weapons and defense technology to Gulf countries under new agreements, President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on March 30.
