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Sanctioning ghosts: Why US plans to hit Russia with fresh economic penalties will have little effect
Trade between Russia and US has fallen 90% since 2021 – blunting the impact of any proposed tariffs or sanctions.
Russia is set to spend 6.3% of its GDP on defense this year — a post-Cold War high.
Falling inflation has persuaded the central bank in Moscow to continue relaxing the country’s record borrowing costs.
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Kyiv Independent on MSNRussia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for 'upcoming large-scale war,' Ukraine's intel chief saysMoscow has launched its most ambitious weapons program since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said.
Ukrainian officials say Russian strikes on the frontline region of Zaporizhzhia have killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more.
Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.