Budapest and Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom are in talks on additional purchases next year, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in an interview with Kremlin-run RIA Novosti published on Oct. 15.The move would likely increase Hunga…
Hungary’s oil and gas giant MOL faces a one-year delay in its $500 million investment project to diversify its refineries from Russian crude oil, Reuters reported on Oct. 10.According to the new estimates, MOL, which owns refineries in Hungary and Slov…
Ukraine controls roughly 40-50% of the town of Toretsk while the rest has been captured by Russia, the city’s military administration head, Vasyl Chynchyk, said on Oct. 11.Toretsk, a town some 35 kilometers (20 miles) north of occupied Donetsk, is one …
The situation in Toretsk in Donetsk Oblast is very unstable as Ukraine is fighting Russian forces in the eastern outskirts of the front-line town, a spokesperson of the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk said on Oct. 7.”The fighting is taking place wit…
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he plans to resume “economic and standard relations” with Russia after the end of Moscow’s war against Ukraine, the RTVS broadcaster reported on Oct. 3.Much like his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, Fico has co…
Ukraine’s new Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha arrived in Budapest on Sept. 30 to meet his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto, his ministry has announced.The ministers began talks in a one-on-one format, according to a statement posted on social media…
Russian forces attacked 14 communities on Sept. 29, injuring 10 people throughout the day, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported.In the town of Esman, five people were injured after a Russian KAB guided aerial bomb struck the community. Anot…
The Russian army injured three civilians in Seredyna-Buda hromada on 19 September [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.].
Source: Sumy Oblast Military Administratio…
Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, voted on Sept. 19 to rename 327 settlements that had names related to the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.Ukraine’s parliament outlawed most Soviet and communist symbols, street names, and monuments as part …
Since the beginning of 2024, Western countries have spent US$2 billion purchasing Turkish oil products made from Russian oil.
Source: Politico
Details: It is worth noting that the volume of fuel delivered to the West by Turkish refineries using Russian…