German gas industry group Zukunft Gas said on Wednesday it was confused by the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin about the switch of payments for Russian natural gas supplies to rubles. “We took the message that Russia wants [us] to pay for gas supplies only in rubles with great confusion,” Timm Kehler, the director…

The military bloc said four new battlegroups will be stationed across Eastern Europe NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said thousands of troops will soon be deployed to four countries in Eastern Europe, calling for the alliance to be bolstered “in all domains,” as it oversees around 140,000 soldiers on the continent.

The longtime official has left the country over the war in Ukraine, Bloomberg reported Veteran Russian political figure Anatoly Chubais has resigned from his position as the special presidential aide for sustainable development and allegedly left the country. The move from the economist and long-time official was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday.