✴️ HYPE = all-time high

⚠️🇨🇦🇷🇺 CANADA EXPANDED SANCTIONS AGAINST RUSSIA

Moscow Exchange and St. Petersburg Exchange added to the lists

120 "shadow fleet" tankers

34 legal entities and 7 individuals

🇷🇺📊 The share of non-sanctioned assets in trading volume on SPB Exchange has exceeded 55% for the first time

✴️🇦🇪 Tether has signed a partnership with Dubai's largest free economic zone (DMCC) to develop blockchain education, tokenization, and innovation.

⚠️🛢️🇷🇺 Discounts on Urals from Russia's western ports narrowed by $0.3–1.0/bbl in June. Shipments to Asia, which previously carried premiums, are now trading at discounts. Oil on the Asian route is cheapening fastest — Argus

🔥🇩🇪🇺🇦 Germany's Foreign Minister stated that negotiations to end the war in Ukraine could begin this summer.

✴️🇷🇺 Russia's first budget payment in digital rubles was made in Chuvashia

✴️🇷🇺 Russia's Supreme Court has added digital rubles, digital rights, and cryptocurrencies to the list of items subject to theft.

🛢️ Brent < $80

⚠️🇺🇦 Zelensky said he will not go to Moscow. He proposed meeting with Putin in Turkey, Switzerland, or somewhere in the Middle East.

⚠️🇪🇺 European defense ministers have begun discussing scenarios for conducting military operations without full-scale U.S. support — BBG

🔥🇺🇸 US — Housing Starts (May) = -15.4% m/m (exp. -2% / prev. -2.8%)

🔥⚠️🇺🇸🇷🇺 TRUMP: WE WILL SOON BE ABLE TO TIGHTEN SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

TRUMP: THE US WILL SOON HAVE THE OPTION TO WALK BACK THE EASING OF SANCTIONS ON RUSSIAN OIL

⚠️🇺🇦 Ukraine is ready to end the war today — Zelensky

Russia is ready to end the war today — Kremlin

❌🇷🇺 Raspadskaya shareholders approved non-payment of dividends for 2025.

🇷🇺📊 June 17 — Russia's Ministry of Finance will hold auctions to place OFZ 26252 and 26254

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Polyus plans to place a new quasi-currency bond issue in yuan with a tenor to put option of 5 years — the longest maturity among corporate yuan issues in the Russian market.

Issue volume: from CNY 1 billion.

Initial coupon guidance: no higher than 8.0% p.a. (yield: no higher than 8.3%).

Bookbuilding: June 18.

Settlement available in either yuan or rubles at investor's choice.

🔥🛢️🇶🇦 QatarEnergy is ready to resume LNG production very quickly and reach full capacity within one month. The main issue lies in delivery, not production — it all comes down to logistics — sources RTRS

⚠️✴️🇺🇸 Robinhood's crypto business volume has halved since the start of the year, company is laying off staff

⚠️🇪🇺 The Netherlands has begun preparing prisoner-of-war camps in case of conflict with Russia — AD

⚠️✴️🇪🇺 Binance may lose permission to serve EU customers. Greece is set to deny the exchange a license — RTRS