Ukrainian News

Gunvor, one of the world’s top oil traders, has pulled out of a deal to buy Russian oil company Lukoil’s foreign assets after the US imposed sanctions. The Treasury Department made clear: it will never approve the transaction unless Russian aggression in Ukraine ends. Gunvor claims it cut ties with Russia years ago, but US regulators aren’t convinced.

If you ask people how they remember the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, many picture scenes at the border— crowds of women and children fleeing Russian bombs. Some will also recall the thousands of men and women who returned from abroad to defend their homeland—including the foreigners who refused to stand by and watch and took up arms to help a country many had never even been to.