As the fourth anniversary of Russia's full scale invasion approaches, Maxim Timchenko says Russia has repeatedly targeted DTEK's energy grid with "waves of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles" and his company has found it difficult to cope.

Oil prices fell sharply as optimism increased for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, sending Brent crude below $60 a barrel to its lowest level since May.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine hand over the remaining territory in the eastern Donbas region that it still holds, including two key fortress cities, or it will be taken by force.

President Trump has issued a warning about the potential for the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine to escalate into a global war.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not comment on the shooting of an out-of-control drone over the Black Sea on Monday but urged Russia and Ukraine

Ukraine said Thursday its long-range drones had struck a major offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea this week, signalling an expansion of its target list in a mounting campaign to cut off Russian energy revenues funding its war.

The issue is that “nobody believes” giving Russia Ukrainian territory is a “true alternative” to create lasting peace, Bosak says.

The Kremlin has described Ukraine’s push to join NATO as one of the “root causes” of the conflict. Russia sees an expanding NATO as a major security threat. But NATO’s expansion into the Baltics and other post-Soviet states is driven by a fear that Moscow would one day invade and try to fold them back under its control—as seen in Ukraine.