WASHINGTON—Satellite imagery taken on Sunday showed a large deployment of Russian ground forces including tanks moving in the direction of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv from approximately 40 miles away, a private U.S. company said. The images released by Maxar Technologies Inc. showed a deployment comprised of hundreds of military vehicles and extending more than 3.25…
Russian Convoy of Ground Forces, Fuel, Tanks Moving Toward Kyiv: Maxar
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BP Quits Russia in Up to $25 Billion Hit After Ukraine Invasion
February 27, 2022
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LONDON—BP is abandoning its stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft in an abrupt and costly end to three decades of operating in the energy-rich country, marking the most significant move yet by a Western company in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Rosneft accounts for around half of BP’s oil and gas reserves and a…
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