Russia’s second largest bank, VTB Bank PJSC, is seeing a sustained deterioration in profits made from lending, feeding concern at the bank over its stability amid the economic pressures from President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
American businessman Leonid Smirnov first got the feeling that something was off when local Russian newspapers began airing rumors that the government was looking at taking over his company, the biggest producer of canned goods in the country.
The military has reported intercepting 39 UAVs overnight and on Monday morning
Russian air defenses brought down dozens of Ukrainian drones overnight on Monday, including several targeting Moscow, according to the Defense Ministry.
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): Ahead of the upcoming meeting in Alaska between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a ceasefire deal, Vice President Vance expressed a clear desire to end the funding of the…
A senior Russian official, Dmitry Kozak, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin’s administration, has reportedly urged Putin to end the war in Ukraine and initiate peace negotiations, according to sources cited by The New York Times on August…