Kiev aims to recapture all of its former territories, including Crimea, Igor Zhovkva has said The ultimate goal of Kiev’s much-hyped counteroffensive is to take back all of the territories it has lost to Russia, Igor Zhovkva, an adviser to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, said in an interview with CNN on Monday.

Warsaw does not want to “prevent the Czechs from being able to drive their cars,” Mateusz Morawiecki has said Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has defended state-owned energy firm Orlen’s move to increase shipments of Russian oil this month despite Warsaw’s tough stance on abandoning imports from Moscow, the outlet Notes from Poland reported on…

The decline stems from lower foreign currency inflows and reduced export revenues, market experts say The Russian ruble dropped to its lowest exchange rate against the US dollar since last April, data from the Moscow Exchange showed on Tuesday.