Bloomberg Ukrainian food conglomerate MHP SE built its business exporting grains and poultry to Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. War forced a pivot, and now the company supplies the Ukrainian army and delivers ready-to-eat chicken to civilians in bombed-out cities. The shift shows how quickly Ukraine’s farming industry—a global heavyweight —flipped from feeding the world to feeding ...

Bloomberg Washington criticized China and Russia for promoting a conspiracy theory that the US military runs biolabs in Ukraine, escalating a dispute over attempts at misleading the public over the war in Europe. “We took note of Russia’s false claims about alleged US biological weapons labs and chemical weapons development in Ukraine,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in ...

  Bloomberg China’s credit expansion slowed as a long holiday and the slumping housing market meant people and companies borrowed less, raising expectations that the central bank will need to do more to support growth. Banks lent 1.2 trillion yuan ($194 billion) in the month, down from 4 trillion yuan in January and less than in February last year, the ...