The US fast-food giant has provoked Kiev’s ire for continuing operations in Russia   The US-based multinational fast-food franchise Subway has been added to Kiev’s list of “international sponsors of war” for continuing to operate and pay taxes in Russia, Ukraine’s National Corruption Prevention Agency (NCPA) announced on Wednesday.

The country has outperformed its regional peers in terms of purchasing power parity, according to the president The Russian economy is growing at a rapid pace, and its gross domestic product (GDP) may have expanded by more than the previously estimated 3.5% in 2023, President Vladimir Putin stated on Thursday.

In November alone, Washington reportedly purchased nearly 10,000 barrels of sanctioned crude The US has continued to buy Russian oil despite being a staunch proponent of anti-Russia sanctions and its own ban from early 2022 on energy imports from the country, news outlet RBK reported on Thursday, citing data from America’s foreign trade statistics database.