Russia has been exporting arms to countries including Saudi Arabia, bolstering its economy after a barrage of sanctions followed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The leak reveals that Saudi Arabia agreed to pay Russia over 2 billion euros under a contract signed in 2021 involving companies that were repeatedly sanctioned, both before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Saudi Arabia is poised to invest £466 billion in the US over the next four years. This stems from Donald Trump's close relationships with the royal family. Simultaneously, the US president has declared his intention to end the war in Ukraine,

In fact, the Saudi Press Agency’s announcement that the kingdom would invest $600bn was based on the royal palace’s readout of a Wednesday phone call between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. This is Trump’s first phone call with a foreign leader since his inauguration earlier this week.

Trump in his first days in office has leaned in on the idea that OPEC+, the alliance of oil producing nations, holds the key to ending the war by reducing oil prices.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Ukraine war is about Russia's national security and not about oil prices, the Kremlin said on Friday after U.S. Donald Trump called for a cut in the price of oil. Trump on Thursday said he will demand Saudi Arabia and OPEC bring down the cost of oil.

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman held talks on Monday with his Iraqi and Libyan counterparts, Hayan Abdel-Ghani and Khalifa Abdulsadek, in Riyadh on efforts to support the stability of global energy markets,

During a speech to the World Economic Forum on Thursday, President Donald Trump pressured the Saudi Crown Prince to increase his planned $600 billion investment in the U.S. "to a round $1 trillion" and to lower the global price of oil.

President Trump held his first official call with a foreign leader since being sworn in for his second term with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, a controversial figure who Trump on

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will demand Saudi Arabia and OPEC bring down the cost of oil and will ask Riyadh to increase a planned U.S. investment package to $1 trillion from an initial reported $600 billion.

Italy is in favour of Saudi Arabia joining the GCAP fighter jet programme, which currently involves Italy, Britain and Japan, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Monday.

Russia and Saudi Arabia are by far the biggest producers ... faced an embarrassing setback months into the Ukraine war when the Saudis rejected the Democrat's public push to increase the global ...