A captured member of the Ukrainian sabotage group, Yevgeny Gorin, born in 1985, "provided detailed information about receiving training in subversive acts at the base of the British 5-RIFLES Armored Infantry Battalion"
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Ukraine Is Failing To Capitalize On Its Gas Potential By Viktor Katona - Jan 16, 2021, 10:00 AM CST
Many nations that intend to become self-sufficient with regard to their hydrocarbon needs oftentimes lowball the terms and conditions they offer to prospective investors. This is fairly logical, high-risk spots must be attractive enough and afterwards, following the first commercial discovery and the first project commissioning, the state can think of ways of increasing the tax burden and finding new methods of hiking revenues. As banal and trite this might seem, there are cases when this sequence breaks down and the phase of opening degenerates into a presumptuous display of incompetence. Ukraine now is apparently flirting with the idea of creating a national oil and gas champion in the form of Naftogaz, at the same time weakening competition and interest in its upstream sector. The Crimea used to be Ukraine’s top hydrocarbon prospect – not only was