fter weeks of bombardment and delays, progress is being made in efforts to evacuate civilians from the port city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian president's office said on Friday. Nearly 500 civilians have been rescued in a United Nations-led operation, said Andriy Yermak, who heads the office of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He announced the figure

The fiercest takeover battle of 2021 took place in a sector that hadn’t seen a major deal in over 20 years: the railroad industry. It began when Canadian Pacific agreed to buy smaller rival Kansas City Southern, a deal that would create the first US-Mexico-Canada railroad. But as the FT’s Arash Massoudi explains, everything changed w

Makariv is a small settlement just outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and like many surrounding towns, felt the full force of the Russian offensive during the early stages of the war. Now President Vladimir Putin's soldiers have moved out to focus their efforts in the east of Ukraine, residents returning to the area are facing the reality of reb