Soldiers' fortune: Ukraine's prisoner swap

士兵之财富:乌克兰的囚犯交换

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2025-05-27

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No one knows which soldiers will be on the buses; many families simply come in hope. As the wider war grinds on, our correspondent witnesses a mix of joy, confusion and disappointment. Big American brands once had it easy in the global marketplace. Now they bear the brunt of anti-Trump sentiment (12:05). And Brazil's bustling bull market—that is, market for bulls (18:28).
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  • The Economist.

  • Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

  • I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

  • Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

  • The biggest, most international,

  • most recognizably American brands used to have an easy job selling into the global marketplace.

  • Used to.

  • We look at a costly backlash.

  • And I can't resist calling it a bull market in Brazil.

  • But it's also a cow market.

  • Bitters buy shares in bovine assets, pay astronomical sums for their semen or eggs.

  • Our correspondent spends some time thinking about what makes a good cow or bull.

  • First up though The thing about exchanges such as this is perhaps

  • if you haven't been to them before you might be surprised to see but the majority of people here Don't know about the fate of their sons and husbands and loved ones Our Ukraine correspondent Oliver Carroll was in a secret location this weekend in Chernihiv,

  • a northern Ukrainian province, to witness the largest prisoner swap since the war began.

  • Just been speaking to Ludmilla who she knows that she's seen a video where her son was basically being taken prisoner of war back in 2023.

  • She hasn't heard anything else

  • since then and obviously the hope is that somewhere Someone knows something about where he is,

  • and so she says she can't even remember how many times she's been to events like this.

  • This is not her first exchange, but she's still in tears,