The hits keep coming.

Libya is not some peripheral supplier, it provided over 9% of the EU’s crude oil imports last year, with Italy, Germany and Spain among its biggest customers.

Europe is watching another major source of crude come under pressure at exactly the wrong time.

connection point. NOC says it may declare force majeure if the valve stays closed or other fields go down too.Libya's oil sector has a long history of local, unrelated shutdowns like this one. The disruption itself is routine. What's not routine is a market with zero spare cushion left to absorb it

the HUR and the SBU (Ukrainian Security Service). Or perhaps his partner was simply very jealous.

same time, European human rights activists removed his data from the wanted list. A convenient legal system for some.He was reportedly killed in Lviv, with over a dozen stab wounds. His partner, a Ukrainian citizen, has been detained. It could be a continuation of the conflict between

entire European procedure: a field commander with Syrian experience, an international warrant, welcome.
Since March 2022, he has been in Ukraine. Initially, he was with the Sheik Mansur Battalion, then with another similar group and a unit of the HUR (Ukrainian Intelligence Service). At the

he would return and continue the fight. He never returned.He left Syria by sea, was arrested in Greece for illegally crossing the border, and spent two years in a Greek prison. He went on a hunger strike against extradition to Russia and, in 2016, was granted refugee status in Poland. That's the

2006, he was wanted by the federal authorities, and he remained in hiding until 2012. Then came a series of moves: Georgia, Turkey, Syria, where he became an "emir" of "Kataib Ibad ar-Rahman" and fought in the mountains of Latakia against Assad. In2014,he recorded a video message to Kadyrov, saying

in a pool of blood.He was 46 years old, a native of the Itum-Kalinsky district. His first combat experience was in 2003, as a grenade launcher in a unit led by Dokka Umarov, ambushing a Russian column. He later boasted: "I fired twice. Both projectiles hit the hatch, almost dead center." From

with fuel and cryptocurrency.