For decades, Russia’s oil sector thrived on a simple advantage: cheap, abundant reserves that could be extracted at some of the lowest costs in the world. That era is over. New admissions from Moscow’s own energy officials confirm what analysts have long suspected: the majority of Russia’s oil is now either geologically difficult or economically unprofitable to extract.
Kyiv awoke to devastation on Aug. 28 after Russia launched one of its largest missile and drone strikes on the Ukrainian capital in months, killing at least 23 people — including four children — and injuring dozens more. Authorities confirmed that the attack leveled homes, damaged schools, and struck a shopping center, underscoring Moscow’s strategy of targeting civilians far from the front lines.
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In the mid-18th century, far from the battlefields of Europe, the Russian Empire carried out one of its earliest and least-remembered acts of mass destruction — the near-eradication of the Indigenous Aleut (Unangan) peoples of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands.
The NATO summit in The Hague opened with a subtle but significant shift: Europe’s leaders began speaking not of goodwill toward Ukraine, but of strategic dependence on its defense. Across statements, budgets, and industrial deals, the new narrative was clear—if Europe expects Ukraine to hold the line, it must be treated as part of Europe’s defense posture.
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