Public sector workers in the Iraqi Kurdistan region went on strike on Sunday over the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) not paying salaries in February, despite oil prices reaching record highs as a consequence of the Russian-Ukraine war. Sulaimaniyah province saw a mass walkout by government workers over the issue of pay, with the KRG cutting salaries following a crash in oil prices in 2014. Since then, the Kurdistan region has sold its oil independently of the federal government in Baghdad, exporting nearly 4,500 barrels of oil per day to international oil markets via Turkey with prices at…