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Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem
Politics

Exclusive: Trump's push for a Ukraine energy truce runs into a Putin problem

by Tim Zadorozhnyy

U.S. President Donald Trump privately doubts that Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to an energy ceasefire with Ukraine before winter, people familiar with the matter told the Kyiv Independent. The doubts come as Washington presses both Kyiv and Moscow to halt attacks on each other's energy infrastructure, one of the key issues in recent peace talks. Trump has publicly pushed Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy facilities, while Moscow has yet to signal that it is ready to accept

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Ukraine war latest: Drones strike another Yandex data center in Russia

Key developments on October 09: * Second Russian Yandex data center damaged by drone attack in two days, company says * Twenty Russian officers killed in Ukrainian strikes on Donetsk, independent monitors claim * Russia forcibly removes 25 Ukrainian civilians, including children, from occupied Kharkiv Oblast, ombudsman says * Russian airports closed amid alleged Ukrainian balloon and drone raid * Ukraine confirms strikes on Russian cruise missile fuel plant, missile facilities A drone att

Why have EU sanctions missed the company behind Russia’s tank industry?

With more than four years of full-scale war and 12 years since Russia first invaded Ukraine, it seems the European Union has developed an extensive arsenal of tools to sanction Moscow, but one problem appears to persist: the visibility problem. Consider two companies that share a name. The first is Research and Production Corporation Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil, Russia's only tank manufacturer. It has been under EU sanctions since March 2022 for supplying the T-72B3 tanks used against Ukrai

Russian tanks move during the military exercises near Borisov, Belarus, on Sept. 15, 2025.
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