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Vladimir Putin has signed a record national budget aimed at boosting the military amid staggering losses on the battlefield. After the budget was passed by the lower house of the parliament, speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said it was developed specifically to fund the military and to mitigate the impact of international sanctions imposed after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Part of the Russian budget is secret as the Kremlin tries to conceal its military plans and sidestep scrutiny of its operation in Ukraine. But independent business journalists Farida Rustamova and Maksim Tovkaylo said this month that around 39 per cent of all federal spending will go towards defence and law enforcement in 2024. It comes as data published by the UK Ministry of Defence, provided by Ukraine’s General Staff, showed the number of Russians casualties had risen to an average 931 a day this month. UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Putin is stepping up his invasion - senselessly sending more Russians to die than at any time since the war began.” Read More Russian forces encircle Ukraine’s Avdiivka and ‘ready to storm city’ after months-long offensive Russian supermarkets are full of fruit, vegetables, cheese and meat. But shoppers can’t afford any of it A Dutch museum has sent Crimean treasures to Kyiv after a legal tug-of-war between Russia, Ukraine Ukraine and the Western Balkans top Blinken agenda for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels

A sense of gloom is settling over Ukraine as the failure of a months-long counteroffensive gives way to

Private cryptocurrencies that failed the fundamental tests of financial services will eventually exit the monetary scene, according to

Central bankers from Australia, England and Thailand warned that the monetary policy outlook remains uncertain, despite growing global

Fast-fashion retailer Shein has filed confidentially with US regulators for an initial public offering that could take place

Asian stocks are poised for a mixed opening after Wall Street struggled in the wake of a rally

Italy is set to back Margrethe Vestager of Denmark for president of the European Investment Bank if its

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pulled out all the stops on Monday to plug the UK as a place

Chinese-owned Nexperia BV’s acquisition of chip firm Nowi Energy BV won approval from the Dutch government, which has

Israel is coming under increasing pressure to agree to an extension of a four-day pause in its war

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said there’s evidence of softening in the region’s jobs market, which officials

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