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Imports dipped after the invasion, and Europe placed sanctions on a number of executives at Russian fertiliser companies. But it soon made clear that the companies themselves, and the commodities they sell,

A top European Union official has warned the United States against interfering in European affairs. European Council President António Costa was reacting Monday to the Trump administration's new national security strategy.

Europeans find themselves stranded between hostile powers, Russia and the United States, with key decisions looming over the future of Ukraine.

RUSSIA plotted to blow up planes heading to the US as part of its escalating sabotage campaign against the West, security sources said. Moscow has also attempted to burn down shopping centres,

Sanctions pressure is escalating, hitting Russia's LNG sector, shadow fleet, and-crucially-its top oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Moscow will respond to the potential deployment of European troops in Ukraine, as well as the use of frozen Russian assets to support Kiev.

The top Ukrainian negotiator said the most recent Russia peace talks in the U.S. with President Donald Trump's team were "constructive" and he will now return to Kyiv to discuss the latest proposals with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Officials are accusing Russia of smaller-scale assaults. President Vladimir V. Putin sought to turn the tables, saying that if Europe were to start a war, Russia is ready.

More detailed, recent assessments of Russian sabotage actions in Europe, another official says, are increasingly being considered in the light of a Nato 2023 Joint Threat Assessment — a classified report shared among the alliances’ defence chiefs — that Russia was gearing its military and economy for a possible hot war with Europe by 2029.