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MABUX ARA LNG Bunker Index
Port LNG$/mton MGO LS$/mton Date
ARA
1 665.00
+102.00
1 425.00
-5.00
Oct 19
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Port	LNG$/mton	MGO LS$/mton	Date
ARA	1 665.00	+102.00	1 425.00	-5.00	Oct 19

MABUX Global Bunker Index

380HSFO$/mton		VLS FO$/mton		MGO LS$/mton		Date
746.40	-3.03	880.02	+4.98	1 545.74	+8.97	Oct 21

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All Indexes in $/mton	380HSFO			VLS FO			MGO LS			Date
All Indexes in $/mton	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	MBP Index	DBP Index	MDI	Date
Rotterdam	665	746	-81	750	847	-97	1 430	1 607	-177	Oct 21
Singapore	875	793	+82	931	974	-43	1 317	1 600	-283	Oct 21
Fujairah	720	738	-18	965	917	+48	1 705	1 663	+42	Oct 21
Houston	599	707	-108	784	843	-59	1 410	1 560	-150	Oct 21

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- 2026-10-22
  Oil rises as US orders diplomats to leave Saudi Arabia amid escalating tensions
  Oil prices rose on Thursday as more attacks by the Houthis in Saudi Arabia prompted the United States to order some diplomats and family members to leave its missions in the Kingdom. Brent crude futures rose $1.29, or 1.2%, to $110.11 a barrel at 00:34... Read more Oil prices rose on Thursday as more attacks by the Houthis in Saudi Arabia prompted the United States to order some diplomats and family members to leave its missions in the Kingdom.
  
  Brent crude futures rose $1.29, or 1.2%, to $110.11 a barrel at 00:34 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 97 cents, or 1%, to $98.12. Brent had settled largely unchanged on Wednesday, while WTI had eased 67 cents.
  
  The US State Department plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region, US officials told Reuters.
  
  Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis struck several targets on Wednesday with at least one person killed and eight more wounded at a civilian airport in Dammam, and two people killed in a drone attack on a Saudi oil field.
  
  Which producers have the greatest exposure to attacks on Saudi facilities?
  Explosions were also heard in Sirik in southern Iran, Iranian media reported on Wednesday, saying the nature and origin of the explosions were unknown.
  
  On Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi told the Financial Times that Iran was fully prepared to defend itself and President Masoud Pezeshkian told state media the US could not expect dialogue while blockading and threatening Iran.
  
  There were at least 18 attacks on shipping over the past two weeks, Kpler data showed, while LSEG analysts warned that Iran was targeting tankers well beyond the Strait of Hormuz, reaching into the Gulf of Oman and jeopardising Gulf crude loadings and ship-to-ship transfers supporting regional loadings.
  
  Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg on Wednesday for talks on ending the war in Ukraine amid Washington’s latest push to stop Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War Two.
  
  The Kremlin said Putin had agreed to resume US-mediated peace talks with Ukraine as soon as next month. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he supported the talks and hoped they would start as soon as possible.
  
  US crude stocks fell by 3.06 million barrels to 412.5 million barrels last week, the US Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday, compared with analysts’ expectations in a Reuters poll for an 820,000-barrel draw.
  
  Distillate stockpiles, which include diesel and heating oil, rose 1.68 million barrels in the week to 104.3 million barrels, versus expectations for a 1.16 million-barrel drop, EIA data showed.
  
  The Trump administration is offering to loan up to nearly a third of the 1-million-barrel US emergency heating oil reserve, the Department of Energy said on Wednesday, seeking to contain prices that have surged on diesel shortages due to the wars in Iran and Ukraine.
  
  Source: Reuters/Investing.com
- 2026-10-22
  Russia’s Northern Sea Route Workaround Supplying Asian Buyers
  Asia-bound Russian crude and fuel supplies are being rerouted as the US-Israeli war on Iran and disruptions in the straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab choke off traditional crude flows from the Persian Gulf. Indeed, Russia increased oil and LNG shipments... Read more Asia-bound Russian crude and fuel supplies are being rerouted as the US-Israeli war on Iran and disruptions in the straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab choke off traditional crude flows from the Persian Gulf.
  
  Indeed, Russia increased oil and LNG shipments via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and utilized shadow fleets to bypass chokepoints and fulfill Asian demand.
  
  Reuters reports that Russia’s oil exports through its NSR in 2026 have already exceeded last year’s by nearly 50%, with 20 million barrels shipped to Asia from the July to mid-October navigation window, when Arctic sea ice is at its annual minimum.
  
  Traders say the volume of Russian oil exported through the Arctic route is expected to rise by another 5-10 million barrels by the end of the navigation period. Russia shipped 13 million barrels during the last navigation season.
  
  While the 13,947-kilometer-route is considerably shorter than the Suez route’s 20,921 km, it is also more expensive and dangerous.
  
  This year the NSR has become more attractive due to disruptions to routes via the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz and the Black Sea.
  
  The Arctic waterway offers a path free from Western inspections, detentions, and port restrictions for Russian oil exporters and its aging "shadow fleet".
  
  Navigating the top of the world cuts travel time to markets like China and India by up to two weeks compared to the Suez Canal route.
  
  New domestic energy projects in northern Russia — such as Rosneft's Vostok Oil and expanded Arctic LNG operations — are actively pumping and shipping larger volumes directly into Asian supply chains.
  
  Meanwhile, tanker freight rates have surged to record highs as supertankers face bottlenecks and delays (such as ship-to-ship transfers outside the Strait of Hormuz).
  
  Record-high freight costs are changing the behavior of Asian buyers who are increasingly using smaller tankers and ships under long-term charter deals to pick crude oil supply.
  
  The higher rates are also forcing Asian refiners to seek alternatives from the Middle East and Latin America.
  
  For Russia, the Northern Sea Route represents a secure alternative to European waters, where oil tankers have regularly been arrested.
  
  The United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom have sanctioned hundreds of shadow-fleet tankers for violating the price cap or operating without proper Western maritime insurance.
  
  Reuters said Russian oil major Gazprom Neft will increase its NSR shipments this year by 35% compared with 2025. President Putin reportedly told an economic forum in Vladivostok that Russia expects cargo turnover via the NSR to double to 70 million tons annually by 2030.
  
  China and India are the largest buyers of Russian crude oil.
  
  China imports just under 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian crude directly through overland infrastructure, anchored primarily by the East Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline and its Skovorodino-Mohe spur. For seaborne shipments, China sources the vast majority of its oil from Russia's eastern Pacific ports — most notably the port of Kozmino — which exports the sought-after ESPO crude grade. In recent months, up to 90% of China’s seaborne Russian crude has come from these Asian-side ports rather than European terminals.
  
  India relies on a sprawling network of sea tankers (including the Russian shadow fleet) to transport crude directly from Russian ports to major Indian refining hubs like Jamnagar, Vadinar and Paradip.
  
  Following disruptions in Middle Eastern supply routes, India aggressively pivoted its import basket toward non-Hormuz channels, establishing Russia as its top crude supplier.
  
  According to a Russian media statement, on 6 June 2023, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke at a strategic session on the development plan of the NSR. This plan was approved by the Russian government in August 2022 that “includes [the] construction of more than 50 icebreakers and ice-class vessels, ports and terminals, emergency and rescue centres, [and] building an orbital group of satellites”. Russia has pledged 2 trillion rubles (US$21.4 billion) over the next 13 years to the development of the NSR. (S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies) Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  MABUX: Global bunker market to edge higher on Oct. 22 amid persistent Middle East tensions.
  The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – showed mixed dynamics on Oct. 21, with no clear directional trend: 380 HSFO: USD/MT: 746.40 (-3.03) VLSFO: USD/MT: 880.02 (+4.98) MGO: USD/MT:... Read more The MABUX World Bunker Index — a composite benchmark reflecting daily prices for 380 HSFO, VLSFO, and MGO – showed mixed dynamics on Oct. 21, with no clear directional trend:
  
  380 HSFO: USD/MT: 746.40 (-3.03)
  VLSFO: USD/MT: 880.02 (+4.98)
  MGO: USD/MT: 1 545.74 (+8.97)
  
  As of Oct. 21, the MABUX Market Differential Index (MDI), which tracks the spread between Market Bunker Prices (MBP) and the MABUX Digital Bunker Benchmark (DBP), showed the following trends across the four major global bunkering hubs—Rotterdam, Singapore, Fujairah, and Houston:
  
  • HSFO segment: Singapore was still the only overvalued hub, with its MDI premium narrowing by another $19 and slipping below the $100 mark. The other three ports continued to be undervalued. MDI discounts widened by $5 in both Rotterdam and Fujairah, while Houston's discount narrowed by $23 but stayed above the $100 threshold.
  
  • VLSFO segment: Fujairah continued to be the only overvalued hub, with its MDI premium widening by another $2. The other three ports were still in the undervalued zone. MDI discounts narrowed by $1 in Rotterdam, $7 in Singapore and $47 in Houston. Houston's discount fell below the $100 mark.
  
  • MGO LS segment: Fujairah retained its position as the only overvalued hub, although its MDI premium narrowed by another $8. The other three ports continued to be undervalued. MDI discounts narrowed by $19 in Rotterdam and $16 in Singapore, while Houston recorded a $7 widening. Discounts across all three undervalued hubs held above the $100 threshold.
  
  MABUX forecasts an upward correction in global bunker prices on October 22, as persistent tensions in the Middle East continue to pose upside risks:
  380 HSFO: plus 1-7 USD/MT, VLSFO: plus 2-6 USD/MT, MGO LS: plus 5–15 USD/MT.
  Source: MABUX
- 2026-10-22
  EIA Says US Crude Inventories Sink Further
  Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a decrease of 3.1 million barrels during the week ending October 16, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles... Read more Crude oil inventories in the United States saw a decrease of 3.1 million barrels during the week ending October 16, according to new data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released on Wednesday. The decrease brings commercial stockpiles to 412.5 million barrels, according to government data, which is now 3% below the five-year average for this time of year.
  
  The EIA’s data release follows API’s figures that were released a day earlier, which reported that crude oil inventories had fallen by 4.93 million barrels in the period.
  
  Crude futures were trading down at 10:26 a.m. in New York. Brent futures were trading relatively flat at $108.87 per barrel—up $0.08 (+0.07%) on the day and up roughly $3 per barrel from this same time last week. WTI was trading slightly down on the day, by $0.13 per barrel (-0.13%) on Wednesday morning at $97.69, up less than $1 per barrel since this time last week.
  
  For total motor gasoline, the EIA reported that inventories decreased by 3 million barrels, after gaining 3.5 million barrels in the week prior. The most recent figures showed that average daily gasoline production averaged 9.8 million barrels. For middle distillates, inventories increased by 1.7 million with production increasing to an average of 5.2 million barrels daily. Distillate inventories are now 9% below the five-year average.
  
  Total products supplied—a proxy for U.S. oil demand—averaged 21.1 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, up 3.2% compared to the same period last year. Gasoline demand averaged 8.7 million barrels per day over the last four weeks, with the distillate four-week average supplied at 3.9 million barrels—down 2.4% year over year.
  
  Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  Saudi Crude Exports Hit Five-Month High as Production Falls to Record Low
  Saudi Arabia's crude exports rose about 7.9% in August from July to 4.451 million barrels per day, the highest since March, while its oil production fell to a record low of 6.24 million bpd, the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed Wednesday,... Read more Saudi Arabia's crude exports rose about 7.9% in August from July to 4.451 million barrels per day, the highest since March, while its oil production fell to a record low of 6.24 million bpd, the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (JODI) showed Wednesday, Reuters reported. Production was 8.135 million bpd in July and 6.560 million bpd in May.
  
  Exports were 4.125 million bpd in July. In March, they were 4.974 million bpd, JODI data showed in May.
  
  Refinery crude throughput fell by 181,000 bpd to 2.297 million bpd in August from 2.478 million bpd in July, and direct crude burning rose by 43,000 bpd to 604,097 bpd.
  
  Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members provide the monthly export figures that JODI publishes, and its Saudi data goes back to 2002, Reuters reported Aug. 20.
  
  "Despite regional tensions, Saudi Arabia was able to further restore crude export volumes by leveraging terminals on both coasts," UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo said. He said he expected the recovery to have continued into September and October.
  
  Gulf oil exporters topped pre-war crude export levels on 14 days in September, provisional Kpler data showed, Reuters reported Oct. 5. Kpler attributed the surge to Saudi Arabia loading from both the Red Sea and the Gulf. Saudi crude and condensate loadings averaged 9.1 million bpd in the week beginning Sept. 21, a post-COVID high, Kpler said Oct. 7.
  
  Reuters reported that the Houthis have attacked Riyadh's international airport and Saudi Aramco, disrupting flights and oil exports. The Saudi-led coalition said Wednesday it intercepted four drones launched toward the kingdom over the Medina and Eastern regions. The Houthis said Wednesday they had not launched drones toward Medina or conducted military operations toward Saudi Arabia. Government agencies in Riyadh have told employees to work from home, a worker and two consultants told AFP, and the Future Investment Initiative conference, due Oct. 26-29, has been postponed to 2027. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  GM to Add Hybrids as U.S. Gasoline Holds Above $4
  General Motors will add hybrids in multiple segments, CEO Mary Barra told analysts Oct. 20, with US gasoline at $4.28 a gallon, up from $3.04 a year earlier. GM's US sales fell 6% in the third quarter, while Toyota's sales of electrified vehicles rose... Read more General Motors will add hybrids in multiple segments, CEO Mary Barra told analysts Oct. 20, with US gasoline at $4.28 a gallon, up from $3.04 a year earlier. GM's US sales fell 6% in the third quarter, while Toyota's sales of electrified vehicles rose 28.5%.
  
  "We will have hybrids," Barra said on the company's third-quarter earnings call, in answer to UBS analyst Joe Spak. She said GM will give more detail closer to launch. Barra said the hybrids will come in segments where GM already competes. She said much of today's hybrid activity is in compact cars, midsize cars and minivans, segments GM is not part of now. The hybrids "have already been added," she said, and will not require additional capital spending and engineering.
  
  GM sold 670,974 vehicles in the US in the third quarter, 37,751 more than Toyota. Barra said the Equinox compact SUV is "fully maxed out even without a hybrid."
  
  Bank of America's Alex Perry asked Barra how higher diesel prices are affecting GM's supply chain and heavy-duty demand. Barra said it is "early with the spike that's just happened in diesel." GM's diesels were more fuel efficient than a hybrid truck even before the spike, she said, so "cost of ownership was lower than buying a hybrid truck." US retail diesel has stayed above $6 a gallon since September, Reuters reported.
  
  Toyota's electrified vehicle sales totaled 363,367 in the quarter, or 57.4% of its volume. Its total US sales rose 0.6% to 633,223.
  
  Researchers at Resources for the Future estimated that about 56,000 US households that would have bought gasoline vehicles between February and May bought hybrids or electric vehicles instead, after gasoline rose from about $3.00 to about $4.50 a gallon. Of those, 38,000 chose conventional hybrids, and 18,000 chose electric vehicles, nearly all plug-in hybrids, Mohit Bisbey and Joshua Linn wrote July 9.
  
  AAA's national average was $4.3413 a week earlier and $4.4761 a month earlier.
  
  CFO Paul Jacobson told TD Cowen's Itay Michaeli that "with these oil prices and these fuel prices, EV penetration may continue to go up," and that GM wants to make sure it is ready for it.
  
  Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  India’s Top State Refiner to Reduce Middle East Term Oil Purchases
  India’s largest state-owned refiner, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), will reduce slightly the volumes of Middle East crude oil it will buy under annual term deals in the 2027/2028 fiscal year starting next March, amid uncertainty of supply from the region,... Read more India’s largest state-owned refiner, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), will reduce slightly the volumes of Middle East crude oil it will buy under annual term deals in the 2027/2028 fiscal year starting next March, amid uncertainty of supply from the region, an anonymous source with knowledge of the plans told Reuters on Wednesday.
  
  IOC initially planned to procure 47% of its crude oil from the Middle East for the coming fiscal year, but it would now “slightly” reduce this share, according to Reuters’ source.
  
  Refiners in India have relied on Middle Eastern supply for decades due to the short travel times and heavier and higher-sulfur crudes suitable for Indian refinery specifications.
  
  But the war in Iran and the disrupted supply of crude oil from the Middle East have changed India’s crude sourcing policies, while ongoing attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz have hiked war-risk premiums and freight costs.
  
  Indian refiners have suspended some term purchases and turned to the spot market for oil, tapping additional volumes of crude oil from South America, including Brazil, Venezuela, and Ecuador, to offset the supply lost in the Persian Gulf.
  
  The higher availability of Middle Eastern crude could still entice Indian customers, as producers have started to offer cargoes at discounts to the regional Dubai/Oman benchmark to compensate for high freight and insurance premium costs. Some exporters in the Middle East are now offering spot cargoes on a delivered basis and are paying part of the high shipping costs to retain market share in the prized Asian markets.
  
  India, specifically, paid $15.4 billion to import crude oil in September, up by 46% from the year-ago import bill of $10.5 billion, as international oil prices and the Indian import crude basket soared amid reignited tensions in the Middle East. In the period April to September, India’s crude oil import bill also jumped by 46.3% to as high as $90.6 billion, up from $61.9 billion in the same period last year, entirely due to the surge in oil prices, as import volumes have remained flat or lower than year-ago levels in recent months. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  Higher Oil Availability Pressures Middle East Crude Benchmarks
  Robust crude oil flows out of the Middle East in recent weeks have started to pressure the key metric of strength for physical supply out of the region. The premium of Oman crude over Dubai, the measure of Middle East’s market strength, has slumped... Read more Robust crude oil flows out of the Middle East in recent weeks have started to pressure the key metric of strength for physical supply out of the region.
  
  The premium of Oman crude over Dubai, the measure of Middle East’s market strength, has slumped this week to the lowest level since the end of July, to $4.22 per barrel, according to data by General Index cited by Bloomberg.
  
  The Oman-Dubai crude differential had soared to as high as $65 in March when the Strait of Hormuz was at a virtual closure and no crude cargoes were moving out of the Middle East. The premium of Oman crude later slipped into a discount in the three weeks in the middle of June and early July, during which the U.S. and Iran were looking to negotiate a deal.
  
  The differential blew out again in August and especially in September, when hostilities resumed.
  
  But as the Middle Eastern producers accelerated shuttle-shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman, flows have recovered in recent weeks.
  
  The higher availability, especially of spot cargoes, led to the Oman crude premium to Dubai slumping from as high as $30 per barrel in the middle of September to just above $4 per barrel this week, per data by General Index.
  
  Crude oil flows from the Middle East are recovering; many tanker-tracking services say they are even topping pre-war levels.
  
  But the cost to move the crude out of the region is very high—freight rates have soared to record highs amid a shortage of tankers. The increased oil flows from the Strait of Hormuz, mostly thanks to ship-to-ship (STS) transfers in the Gulf of Oman, are tying up supertankers for weeks waiting for the transfers outside the Strait, limiting the availability of very large crude carriers (VLCCs) for other key global oil trade routes, such as the U.S. Gulf Coast to Asia. Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  Japan’s Trade Deficit Doubles as Hormuz Crisis Hikes Energy Import Costs
  Japan booked a trade deficit of $17.8 billion (2.82 trillion Japanese yen) for April to September, almost double the deficit from a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, as the Middle East crisis made energy imports into the resource-poor... Read more Japan booked a trade deficit of $17.8 billion (2.82 trillion Japanese yen) for April to September, almost double the deficit from a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, as the Middle East crisis made energy imports into the resource-poor G7 economy much more expensive.
  
  Between April and September, the period right after the Iran war began and choked oil and LNG supply at the Strait of Hormuz, the value of Japan’s exports rose by 18.4% while the value of imports jumped by 20.4%, according to the Finance Ministry’s provisional data for the first half of the fiscal 2026 year.
  
  While the volume of petroleum imports fell by 21.2%, the value surged by 26.3%. Petroleum product imports slumped by 26.8% in volume but rose by 23.2% in value.
  
  LNG import volumes also fell by 8.4% from the same period last year, but the value of imports increased by 13.5%, the data showed, reflecting the surge in oil and LNG prices in the six months to September.
  
  Japan’s oil import bill has soared to record highs following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz – the G7 economy’s key import source before the war – the spike in crude oil prices, and skyrocketing freight and insurance costs.
  
  In addition, Japan, one of the world’s biggest LNG importers, this summer reduced gas-fired generation in favor of coal as the price of liquefied natural gas remained elevated.
  
  Since the war in the Middle East began, Japan has scrambled to secure crude oil supply from alternative sources as its dependence on crude from the Middle East passing through the Strait of Hormuz was more than 90% of all crude imports.
  
  The G-7 economy has moved to release crude from its strategic reserves as part of an IEA-coordinated global effort to release 400 million barrels of crude and oil products.
  
  Earlier this month, the Japanese government approved three bills to boost diversification of oil supplies and energy security, including grants to compensate Japan’s oil importers for the high shipping costs to procure supply from outside the Middle East.
  
  Source: Oilprice.com
- 2026-10-22
  Russia to Send First Diesel Tanker to U.S. on Thursday
  Russia will send its first diesel tanker to the US on Thursday under the agreement between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters Wednesday, according to TASS and Prime. Novak did not name the... Read more Russia will send its first diesel tanker to the US on Thursday under the agreement between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters Wednesday, according to TASS and Prime. Novak did not name the port. He gave the tanker's displacement as 40,000 tons and said additional shipments will follow. "We will meet the United States' needs, to the extent of our capabilities," RIA quoted him as saying, via Reuters.
  
  Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday that the first tanker, which he also put at 40,000 tons, would leave in two to three days and that others would follow one after another, VZGLYAD reported. Reuters quoted Putin as saying the "financial component should be provided."
  
  Trump said Oct. 9 that Russia would export more than 300,000 tons of diesel immediately, 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons "immediately thereafter." The Russian government partially lifted its diesel export ban the next day, effective Oct. 10, citing the Trump-Putin agreement and allowing 500,000 tons onto the world market in a first stage, Kommersant reported. Kpler's Michelle Brouhard said Trump's initial 300,000 tons works out to roughly 73,000 barrels per day over a month, which would probably not move global prices much, Reuters reported. US retail diesel has stayed above $6 a gallon since September, Reuters reported.
  
  Putin said world diesel prices fell 5%-6% immediately after the announcement, Reform.news reported. Putin said Russia could also supply fertilizer to the US market "in large quantities," and offered to help Washington deal with Iran, Reuters reported.
  
  Since the diesel announcement, Ukraine has complained of disrupted intelligence sharing and of limits on its use of the Starshield satellite system, Reuters reported. Zelenskyy said a meeting with Witkoff in Oslo on Tuesday reached an agreement to resolve those issues.
  
  Russian attacks overnight into Wednesday killed four people in Ukraine, officials said, and hit energy facilities in the Kyiv, Volyn, Odesa and Mykolaiv regions, Prime Minister Sergii Koretskyi said, Interfax-Ukraine reported. A drone struck a 24-story apartment building in Kyiv and killed two people. In Korotych, in the Kharkiv region, strikes killed an 81-year-old woman and an 83-year-old man and injured 11 people, including two children, according to regional officials.
  
  Russia's Defense Ministry said it hit a warehouse complex storing drones in Poltava, the Nivki substation in Kyiv, which it said supplies defense enterprises and logistics centers, and a cargo ship carrying military cargo to Odesa, Interfax reported. A week earlier, Russian strikes cut power to at least 600,000 people in Ukraine, Zelenskyy said. Source: Oilprice.com

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