Unfettered By Western Sanctions, A Russian Bank Delivers Wages To Soldiers Invading Ukraine – Analysis

By Heorhiy Shabayev, Natalie Sedletska and Kyrylo Ovsyaniy

(RFE/RL) — On June 10, Albina Abayeva posted a short remark on the social network VK: “Gazprom zp has come,” it said in Russian.

Cryptic, but in context the meaning was clear: Her husband, who was fighting in Russia’s war against Ukraine, had received his...