The country’s partners have already pledged around $15 billion in financial aid in a move to support Ukraine’s economy and army amid a military conflict with Russia.

FTSE Russell and MSCI decided to remove Russian equities from all their indexes.

Putin has made every single Ukrainian his enemy. During the first five days of the conflict, he has learned the painful lesson that Ukrainian society is far more capable of mobilizing our collective strength than any citizen of an authoritarian regime could possibly comprehend.

The average price of Azeri oil rises amid a deficit on the world oil market and fears of a reduction in oil supplies from Russia, one of the major suppliers globally.

The Russian military relentlessly pressed on with its drive to get Ukrainian cities to submit, shelling several towns already largely in ruins. But in the sole city seized by Russian forces, Kherson in Ukraine’s south, dozens of demonstrators staged a demonstration, showing disregard for the occupiers.

Russia’s pressed on with its drive to shell Ukrainian cities into submission, taking a stranglehold on the southern port of Mariupol and taking aim at Mykolayiv and Odesa further west