Sovcomflot PJSC, Russia’s largest shipping company, received the first domestically built ice-class tanker to expand the fleet of ships hauling super-chilled gas from the blacklisted Arctic LNG 2 project year-round.

Urals crude tumbled to about $34 a barrel at the point of export last week, a deep discount to international benchmarks.

Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil slumped to about $34 a barrel in a signal that US sanctions on Moscow are having an impact.

The relaunch of a second mooring at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal has once again been delayed, according to two people familiar with the situation.

Russia said a drone attack damaged infrastructure and vessels in the Black Sea port of Taman, yet another strike on the country’s commodities assets.

The UK government imposed sanctions on three smaller Russian oil producers, as a US-brokered peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv remains elusive.

An oil tanker caught fire after an overnight drone attack on Russia’s southern city of Rostov, as Ukraine expands the scope of strikes on energy assets.

Ukrainian drones attacked Lukoil PJSC’s Grayfer field in the Caspian Sea, damaging an offshore gas platform, according to Ukraine’s General Staff.

Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russia’s Caspian region, hitting energy production and refining assets, amid ongoing talks to clinch a peace deal.

Ukraine has intensified attacks on Russia’s Caspian region, hitting energy production and refining assets, amid ongoing talks to clinch a peace deal.

Ukraine said it hit a major oil refinery and an oil depot in Russia as US President Donald Trump dispatched envoys to Berlin for another round of talks on how to end the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started in 2022.

Ukraine attacked Lukoil PJSC’s Filanovsky oil field in the Caspian Sea, according to a person familiar the matter, widening the scope of its strikes on Russian energy infrastructure just as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is under US pressure to agree to a peace deal largely on the Kremlin’s terms.

Ukraine said it attacked a Rosneft PJSC oil refinery and a small port on Russia’s Azov Sea coast, adding to a wave of strikes that are becoming costly for Moscow and its petroleum industry.

The Russian government’s oil proceeds shrank by almost a third in November from a year ago as weaker crude prices and a stronger currency took their toll on revenues.

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which handles most of Kazakhstan’s crude exports through Russia to the Black Sea, halted loading after one of its three moorings was damaged amid overnight Ukrainian attacks in the region.

Russia unleashed an air barrage on Ukraine’s capital overnight, killing at least three people and causing widespread power outages, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s negotiating team heads to the US for talks aimed at bringing an end to the war.

Ukrainian forces say they have once again attacked Rosneft PJSC’s Saratov oil refinery in Russia’s Volga region as the US pushes for a resolution to the Kremlin’s nearly four-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine attacked key Russian key energy infrastructure on the Black Sea for a third time this month just as President Donald Trump cited progress on his peace proposal.

An overnight drone strike triggered a fire at the Shatura power plant supplying Moscow, as Russia and Ukraine step up attacks on energy infrastructure amid a peace plan pushed by the Trump administration.

Russian oil giant Rosneft PJSC plans to pay the lowest interim dividends since the pandemic in 2020 as slumping crude prices, a stronger ruble and looming US sanctions bite.