Soldiers’ fortune: Ukraine’s prisoner swap

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No one knows which soldiers will be on the buses; many families simply come in hope. As the wider war <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/05/25/russia-is-raining-hellfire-on-ukraine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content ...

ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN // Attempts to maintain a neutral stance on the invasion of Ukraine, while also buddying up with China, are sending <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/04/10/brazils-foreign-policy-is-hyperactive-ambitious-and-naive?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_m ...

At a hidden command centre our correspondent finds <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/09/ukraines-defenders-anxiously-dig-in-for-a-looming-russian-assault?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anon ...