Western nations would “swallow” Russia’s use of nuclear weapons against its neighbor, Dmitry Medvedev said NATO would not intervene if Moscow used nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Dmitry Medvedev has said, claiming that Kiev’s Western backers would be unwilling “to die in a nuclear apocalypse” for the country.

Increased purchases of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by European nations are expected to help the crisis-hit region generate enough power this winter to offset gas supplies from Russia, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.

Eurozone economic growth has slumped and could soon wind down to zero, the European Central Bank (ECB) vice president said on Monday. “We are seeing that in the third and fourth quarters there is a significant slowdown and we may find ourselves with growth rates close to zero,” Luis de Guindos said at a conference,…