Israel’s economy faced one of the biggest contractions in the country’s history in the fourth quarter of last year due to the ongoing war with Hamas, a report from the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics revealed on Monday.

The attack came in response to Kiev’s attempts to damage the country’s energy infrastructure, the Defense Ministry has said The Russian military has conducted high-precision strikes on Ukrainian ammo warehouses, including those storing drones and airborne weapons supplied by the West, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said.

The head of Russian oil major Rosneft, Igor Sechin, has criticized the Finance Ministry’s tax policy, which he claims provoked a crisis in the domestic fuel market. He also took aim at the country’s Central Bank for a lack of “reliable” routes for cross-border payments in various currencies and for a series of sharp interest…