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August 1, 2024
Dmitry Patrushev who is responsible for the agricultural sector, a deputy prime minister, confirmed that Russia's official grain crop forecast was 132 millions metric tons this year despite poor weather in many regions. The extreme weather conditions…
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July 31, 2024
The Chinese rebuked Ottawa for the exercise, saying it undermined the peace. The Canadian defense ministry announced that the HMCS Montreal had recently conducted a routine passage through the strait. According to the minister of defence, this…
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July 30, 2024
According to market data and LSEG on Tuesday, Russian shipping company Sovcomflot began transporting Urals crude to Asia this year via the Northern Sea Route. Melting ice has opened the Arctic transit route to transit shipments. Russia is looking for alternative routes from western ports to Asia…
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July 30, 2024
Rosneft suspended the liquefied gas (LPG), shipments, from Rospan plants after a July 26 fire in one of its LPG production units. Rospan’s gas-processing facility in the Yamal Nenets region was hit by an explosion and fire last Friday. Rospan supplies LPG to Russian and international markets.
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July 30, 2024
Russian media reported that the Russian Navy began planned exercises on Tuesday. The exercise involved a large part of their fleet, as well as some 20,000 people and 300 vessels, according to Russian news agencies citing information from the Defence Ministry.
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July 27, 2024
Officials said that Russian shelling on Saturday killed at least 5 civilians in different regions of Ukraine. Officials in Kherson, Ukraine's southern region, said that three people had been killed: one in the administrative center, also known as Kherson…
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July 24, 2024
Local officials reported that on Wednesday, Russia launched a number of attacks against the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine and its surrounding area, killing at least three people and wounding six others. The office of an NGO for mine clearance from Switzerland was also damaged.
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July 24, 2024
Georgia's State Security Service said Wednesday that it was investigating an assassination plot against former Prime Minister Bidzina ivanishvili. She is the honorary chairperson of the ruling party. In a Facebook post, the State Security Service…
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July 23, 2024
West, a UK ship insurer, said that it would be difficult to pay claims for ships involved with accidents or collisions involving other vessels insured by the sanctions-hit Russian Ingosstrakh. This is another indication of the difficulties with Moscow's oil trading.
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July 23, 2024
Two sources familiar with the plans said that the Black Sea CPC blend oil exports through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium system (CPC) are expected to drop to 4.9 million tons in August, from the 5.4 millions planned for July. Calculations showed…
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July 23, 2024
Veniamin Kodratyev, the regional governor of the southern Krasnodar Region in Russia, said that a Ukrainian drone attacked a ferry in Port Kavkaz and killed a person. The RIA news agency, citing a source from emergency services, reported that…
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July 23, 2024
Market sources reported that Lukoil - Russia's largest oil company - has increased its crude oil loading for July by about 140,000 tons after Ukraine stopped oil transit from Europe via the Druzhba pipe. Lukoil will load the Suzemax ship Arus at Novorossiisk, Russia, on July 23-24.
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July 23, 2024
The Russian Defence Ministry reported that Russian warships had conducted routine combat training in the White Sea, involving a convoy of ships and defending them. Two small anti-submarine vessels, the Onega, and the Naryan Mar, practiced the…
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July 23, 2024
The farm ministry announced on Friday that Ukraine has harvested over 13.8 million tons of grain so far. According to the ministry, farmers have harvested 10.3 millions tons of wheat as well as 3.1 million tonnes of barley. In addition, 319.300 tons of beans were harvested.
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July 23, 2024
These are the most popular stories from the Financial Times. These stories have not been verified and we cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports. Overview - On Thursday, the Bank of England announced that it was experiencing a temporary outage of its CHAPS interbank payments system.
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July 23, 2024
Air India announced on Friday that a plane containing food and other necessities was heading to Russia to pick up passengers who were stranded there after an earlier flight bound for San Francisco made an emergency landing. Air India's aircraft…
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July 23, 2024
Traders said that the price of Russian Urals crude is stable in Indian ports. The market's attention has shifted to cargoes due to load next month, amid an anticipated limited lifting plan for Russia’s western ports. In Indian ports, urals oil…
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July 23, 2024
An official notice published on Thursday showed that Britain has added 11 new sanctions to its Russia sanctions regime in relation to the conflict in Ukraine. The government stated that the sanctions against ships such as Zaliv Amurskiy, SCF…
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July 23, 2024
Prosecutors said that Russian airstrikes on Ukraine's frontline Donetsk Region on Thursday killed five civilians, injured three more, and damaged private homes and a residential structure. The general prosecutor's Office announced on Telegram…
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July 23, 2024
On Thursday morning, the mayor of Novorossiisk in Russia's Black Sea port issued a sea-drone alert that lasted more than two full hours. Meanwhile, a group unmanned Ukrainian boats were destroyed near Crimea. In his first message sent via Telegram…
