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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived in Ukraine’s capital on Thursday with a pledge to help guarantee the country’s security for a century, days before Donald Trump is sworn in as U.S. president.

The Moscow-controlled breakaway region of Moldova will receive gas as a “humanitarian gesture” from the Kremlin, while the rest of the country will remain cut off after Russia halted supplies on 1 January, citing alleged unpaid debts.

The EU Court agreed on the need to restrict trade with the Moscow-based mobile operator, as it could be helping the Russian army with its invasion of Ukraine.

Hanoi is seeking to revive its nuclear programme in order to achieve energy self-sufficiency and meet its 2050 greenhouse gas emissions goals.

The leaders of Ukraine and Slovakia are locked in a spiralling dispute over supplies of Russian gas, and can’t even agree on a location to hold further talks.

Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden have demanded a revision of the price cap on Russian seaborne oil. The cap was set in late 2022 at $60 per barrel and has remained untouched since then.

Crude oil prices rose to a three-week high amid mounting concerns over supply disruptions and increasing demands. However, technical analysts caution that oil markets may be over-bought.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested returning the soldiers to North Korea in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners held by Russia.

The Kerch Strait is an important küresel shipping route, providing passage from the inland Sea of Azov to the Black Sea and has been a key point of conflict between Russia and Ukraine after Moscow annexed the peninsula in 2014.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at an annual security conference on Sunday that Sweden is not at war but there is also no peace, the news agency TT reported.