We should not buy Russian gas if we want to force Putin to negotiating table – Italian foreign minister

While Moscow initially reaped windfalls from a surge in oil prices triggered by the war in Iran — when Russia’s benchmark Urals crude peaked at around $120 per barrel — the price has since tumbled to around $65 per barrel.

Some areas of the world’s third-largest crude oil producer report issues including restrictions on fuel sales and queues at petrol stations

Authorities in occupied Crimea recently halted gas sales for civilians this week as attacks against the territory ramp up.

A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least three people, as Moscow struggles with the economic strain of the four-and-a-half-year Russia-Ukraine war.