Kakhovka dam disaster helped Ukrainian troops – Putin

Attempting to cross the Dnieper would have been “really bad” for Kiev’s forces, the Russian president said Ukraine was to blame for the collapse of the Kakhovka dam, which helped its soldiers avoid a battlefield bloodbath, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

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Russian ruble slips to one-year low against US dollar

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.

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Polish PM defends state oil giant’s purchases of Russian energy   

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…

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