Moscow has approved their participation in a bid to rapidly restore production at Sakhalin-1 The Russian government has allowed India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Japan’s Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co (SODECO) to keep their stakes under the new domestic operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project on Monday.

Asian countries now account for two thirds of Russia’s total seaborne oil exports, while supplies to the EU continue to decline, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Sea deliveries to Asia reportedly accounted for less than two fifths of Russian seaborne crude sales before the EU, the US and their allies introduced sanctions over Moscow’s military operation…

Poland has put its military on alert and is discussing whether to invoke NATO’s Article 4, officials in Warsaw said on Tuesday evening. The government is still investigating the cause of explosions in a village near the border with Ukraine, which Kiev blamed on Russia.