Three and a half years in, Russia has failed militarily, even if Ukraine is bleeding, too. Mr Putin has not even managed to overrun Kharkiv, just 35km from the border, let alone Kyiv. The flow of goods through Ukraine’s deep-sea ports surpasses pre-war volumes.

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Ukraine's fledgling economic police need more resources to crack down properly on an untaxed shadow economy worth billions of dollars and create an investor-friendly climate, its director said in an interview.

In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, the president criticized the UN and renewable energy, plus made a sudden pivot on the war in Ukraine

President Trump’s dramatic pronouncement Tuesday that Russia is a “paper tiger” is based on new US intelligence that shows the Kremlin is spiraling toward economic ruin and battlefield defeat as a result of its invasion of Ukraine.

Trump no longer wants the war to end now. He thinks it could go on until Ukraine retakes what it almost certainly cannot have. It is fair to say Kyiv privately would like the war to come to a just and lasting end tomorrow, given the acute manpower issues and slow territorial losses it has faced for months.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that Hungary will continue to source fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from his ally President Donald Trump, and that he’d informed the president that dropping Russian energy would be a “disaster” for Hungary’s economy.

Ukraine’s biggest oil and gas company is pitching several projects that could be among the first under a resource deal with the US to shore up its wartime economy and help secure support from President Donald Trump.