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Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that the conflict poses a substantial economic risk for the region and internationally, and added that the IMF could help other countries impacted by the conflict, complementary to a $2.2 billion loan package being prepared to assist Ukraine.
President Vladimir Putin considers the Syrian civil war to be a good platform for advertisement of the capabilities of Russian weapons capable of boosting Russia's military sales. [4] [5] Russia accounted for 22% of global arms sales in 2013–17, [6] that figure dropped to 16% in 2018–22 (SIPRI's statistics).
Vladimir Putin's options to retaliate if the West lets Ukraine use its long-range missiles to strike Russia could include striking British military assets near Russia or, in extremis, conducting a ...
According to Putin's aide, Biden told Putin that the U.S. did not plan to deploy offensive weapons in Ukraine. [473] Biden also warned that if Russia continued aggression against Ukraine, it would lead to "serious costs and consequences" such as the U.S. imposing additional economic sanctions on Russia, increasing U.S. military presence in the ...
From 2008-2012, he was director of the department for economics and finance in the government apparatus, the same years Putin served as prime minister. * In 2012, he was made economics minister.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defence minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better ...
The annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014 and subsequent war in the Donbas marked the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, leading to diplomatic fallout and the imposition of economic sanctions by Western nations. [1] In 2021, Russia significantly increased its military presence along its border with Ukraine, massing about 100,000 troops by ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Tuesday that NATO members in Europe were playing with fire by proposing to let Ukraine use Western weapons to strike deep ...