Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has accused the West of attempting to turn this country into “a second Afghanistan” amid Moscow’s ongoing military offensive in Ukraine. Speaking at the meeting with his Pakistani counterpart, Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, in China on Wednesday, Lavrov described the current situation in Ukraine as an attempt by…

Estonia has suggested that the money Europe is set to pay Russia for its energy supplies should be used to rebuild Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. “In order to make an immediate impact and make Russia pay for what has been done in Ukraine”, the payments for Moscow’s oil and gas should…

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the process of switching to ruble payments for Russian gas export deliveries will take time and won’t begin immediately this week, despite the March 31 deadline set by presidential order.