Russia said its troops stopped fighting in Ukraine at noon Moscow time under President Vladimir Putin’s order of a 36-hour ceasefire for the Orthodox Christmas holiday. Kyiv dismissed the offer as a ploy. Air-raid sirens rang out across the country shortly after the deadline, Ukraine said, as R.
DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Germany's energy watchdog on Friday rebuffed fears that a shortage of Russian gas would lead to large-scale power blackouts in.
Russian gas supplies to Germany via the important Nord Stream 1 pipeline were reduced to zero again on Wednesday, Germany s Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has confirmed.