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Ukrainian strike hits Russian-controlled Luhansk region coal mine, 41 miners trapped underground

At least 41 miners were trapped underground after a Ukrainian strike hit a coal mine in the Russian-controlled Luhansk region, a Moscow-installed official said on Monday. According to Leonid Pasechnik, the strike targeted the Bilorichenska coal mine, damaging a power substation and cutting electricity supply, which left workers stranded below ground. “All the relevant services…

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US offers temporary sanctions relief to Russian-controlled Serbian oil firm

The United States has granted a majority-Russian-owned Serbian oil company a temporary reprieve from sanctions targeting Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a Serbian minister said on Wednesday. Washington’s sanctions on the Petroleum Industry of Serbia (NIS), part of its crackdown on Russia’s energy sector, forced the shutdown in early December of Serbia’s sole oil refinery, which…

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