Valery Zaluzhny’s Economist interview and essay are the best feel-good story sympathetic reporters could muster General Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief, has given an important interview to The Economist, a major platform for Western bellicism. The magazine is also hosting his guest essay on ‘Modern Positional Warfare and How to Win in It’.

Ukrainian officials are not actually “stealing like there’s no tomorrow,” and “anonymous sources” claiming otherwise should not be trusted, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has said. The minister made the remarks on Monday, commenting on a recent report by Time magazine  alleging there is rampant – and poorly concealed – corruption in the country.

The country’s crude export revenues more than doubled last month, despite sanctions The price cap on Russian oil introduced by the G7 and EU late last year in an effort to curtail Moscow’s energy revenues has been proving increasingly ineffective, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.