WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on Russia’s leading tanker group, Sovcomflot, the department’s website said on Friday, as Washington seeks to reduce Russia’s revenues from oil sales that it can use to support its invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control also designated 14 vessels for carrying…

(Reuters) – Ukraine’s military on Friday destroyed a Russian A-50 surveillance aircraft, Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk said, the second time in a little more than a month that Ukraine has reported downing the sophisticated plane. “The A-50 with the call sign ‘Bayan’ has flown its last!” Oleshchuk wrote on the Telegram messaging app. Interfax…

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday announced Washington would issue more than 500 new sanctions targeting Russia as the United States seeks to increase pressure on Moscow to mark the second anniversary of its war in Ukraine. The United States will also impose new export restrictions on nearly 100 entities for providing support…

WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland will gain access to up to 137 billion euros ($148 billion) in European Union funds, the head of the EU executive said on Friday, after the new government in Warsaw began implementing reforms it says will restore judicial independence in the country. Unblocking the cash was a promise made by Prime Minister…

AFP WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund yesterday said it will disburse US$880 million to Ukraine in the third phase of a US$15.6 billion aid package approved last year as Kyiv fights the Russian invasion. The aid, announced almost two years to the day after Russian forces poured across the border, must still be approved by…

(Reuters) – Armenia has frozen its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) because the pact had failed the country, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview broadcast on Thursday. Pashinyan also said Azerbaijan, with which Armenia has fought two wars over the past three decades, was not adhering to the principles…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will impose sanctions on over 500 targets on Friday in action marking the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. The action, taken in partnership with other countries, will target Russia’s military industrial complex and companies in…

Reuters HOUSTON: A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the south pole of the moon on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved entirely by the private sector. The six-legged robot lander, dubbed Odysseus, touched down at…