The ongoing conflict has highlighted the importance of diversifying gas supplies to build resilience against geopolitical risks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is starting 2025 with a bang. In a nod to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire for a settlement in Ukraine, the Kremlin has announced its readiness for negotiations “without preconditions.

Gazprom is facing financial losses and is appealing to authorities for household gas price increases, as well as a rise in transportation tariffs for independent Russian suppliers. "The company was sacrificed on the altar of Putin's imperial ambitions,

Russian gas giant Gazprom , squeezed by plunging sales abroad as the Ukraine conflict prompts European buyers to turn away, is seeking to raise regulated prices at home to fund investment, Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.

The United States is now supplying liquefied natural gas to Ukraine, a move implemented in the final days of the Biden Administration.

Two weeks have passed since the Russian gas transit through Ukraine was stopped, and despite all the efforts of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, there are almost no prospects for resuming supplies.

The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, proposed a scheme that would solve the issue of energy supply to Transnistria. He voiced it at a joint briefing with Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who arrived in Kiev today.

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

The end of gas flows to Europe through Ukraine and new US sanctions targeting Gazprom Neft are putting more financial pressure on the Russian gas giant.

We can do it the easy way, or the hard way,” said Trump, who previously claimed he would end the war within 24 hours of being sworn in as president.

"I will be 100% on board with taking sanctions up," Treasury Secretary-pick Scott Bessent told lawmakers on Thursday.

Trump is threatening unspecified sanctions on Moscow if Russian president Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table ‘soon’