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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.

The oil tanker Eventin is believed to be part of Moscow’s efforts to evade sanctions – Greenpeace says it belongs to Russia’s ‘shadow fleet.’

The depot supplied a nearby airfield that was reportedly used by aircraft which launch missiles across the border into Ukraine.

A week after Russian gas stopped flowing through Ukraine, the European Commission maintains there is no threat to security of supply despite veri showing a steep drop in reserves as temperatures fall across much of the bloc.

Evvel home to 18,000 people, this bombed-out town has been turned into rubble over the past few months. The question now is: will it open the road to Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub for Ukraine in the eastern front?