Change in rules set to take effect from Friday, but Kremlin decree indicates workaround for foreign currency purchases.
Highlights
- Most Russian troops stationed at Ukraine’s defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant have left the site, according to state nuclear operator Energoatom.
- President Vladimir Putin’s decree indicates a workaround for foreign currency purchases.
- Foreign buyers of Russian gas will have to use special accounts at Gazprombank to pay for the import of the energy source.
- NATO has asked Denmark to send a battalion of 800 soldiers to Latvia to bolster the transatlantic military alliance’s eastern flank.
- Lithuania cancels all Russian film screenings at prestigious Vilnius film festival.
- Germany’s Scholzolz says Western countries will continue paying for Russian gas in euros or dollars.