The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine introduces a ban on transit flights of all Russian airlines without exception in the Ukrainian airspace. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced this at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers. “I ask the Ministry of Infrastructure to take measures in accordance with international law to notify the Russian side ...

For the first time, the European Commission has directly stated that it will oppose any plans by Gazprom aimed at weakening Ukraine’s role in gas transit to Europe. Members of the European Parliament simultaneously launched a campaign against the last of these projects, Nord Stream-2. Monopoly sources and analysts believe these...