By Iris Deng,Tracy Qu,Yaling Jiang Western sanctions imposed on Russia for invading Ukraine, which triggered a dive in the value of the rouble, are reverberating across China’s online cross-border merchant community, according to a local trade group.“The Russia and Ukraine markets have basically come to a standstill,” said Wang Xin, executive chairwoman of the Shenzhen […]
By Associated Press Ukraine on Wednesday invited the worried mothers of Russian troops captured on the battlefield to come and collect their sons, in an apparent attempt to embarrass Moscow.“A decision has been taken to hand over captured Russian troops to their mothers if they come to collect them in Ukraine, in Kyiv,” the defence […]
By Richard Heydarian “War,” argued the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is “essential”. Born after the Napoleonic Wars, the controversial philosopher maintained, “we know of no other means to imbue exhausted peoples, as strongly and surely as every great war does”.In many ways, Russia’s much-anticipated invasion of Ukraine has jolted the West out of strategic despondency. […]