The White House scrambled to get a message to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last year after U.S. intelligence agencies said a Russian military unit was preparing to send explosive packages on cargo planes.

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden's team delivered a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end to Russian intelligence's suspected plans to smuggle incendiary devices onto U.S.-bound cargo planes,

Joe Biden has warned Vladimir Putin about planned Russian sabotage actions on transatlantic routes, reports the "New York Times". According to the newspaper, Russian operatives planned to place self-igniting courier packages on board planes flying to the USA and Canada.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Russia has been “stepping up” its all-out war on Ukraine nearly three years after its big invasion.

Pentagon chief candidate Pete Hegseth stated that the administration of the next US President Donald Trump will seek to end the war in Ukraine. He added that they would like to do this "as advantageously as possible" for Ukrainians,

Chinese and Indian refiners are seeking alternative fuel supplies as they adapt to severe new U.S. sanctions on Russian producers and tankers that are designed to curb the revenues of the world's second-largest oil exporter.

India intends to abandon oil tankers that have been sanctioned by the United States because of their role in transporting goods for Russia, which is another example of the impact of Washington's measures on the global oil market.

Russian seaborne oil exports may decrease in the coming weeks after the United States imposed sanctions on two of Russia’s largest exporters and about 160 tankers in the shadow fleet, Bloomberg reports.