Russia 'ready' for war with Europe, Putin says
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Several top Ukrainian officials were expected to be in Brussels on Wednesday for meetings with European national security advisers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Vladimir Putin issued Europe with a chilling threat on Tuesday, warning that Russia was not only “ready” for war on the continent but could prosecute it with such force that there would be “nobody left to negotiate peace with” when he was finished.
The foreign minister says the EU is downplaying its concerns and over the plan which Belgium sees as "fundamentally wrong".
European Union lawmakers and member states reached a deal Wednesday to ban all imports of Russian gas by autumn 2027, as the bloc seeks to choke off key funds feeding Moscow's war chest."This is the dawn of a new era,
The European Union agreed Wednesday to phase out Russian natural gas imports by late 2027 as part of an effort to end the bloc’s decade-long dependency on Russian energy.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a peace plan that Washington hopes can end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.
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Russia-EU trade turnover falls to historic low as sanctions bite
By Ben Aris in Berlin Trade between Russia and the European Union has plummeted to its lowest level on record, as sanctions, energy decoupling, and sanctions bite, Izvestiya reported on December 2. According to figures released by the Russian Mission to the EU cited by Izvestiya,
Russian energy giant Gazprom's average daily natural gas supplies to Europe via the TurkStream undersea pipeline were in line with the previous month in November, at 54.3 million cubic metres per day,