Opinion: IMF's trip to Moscow is effectively enabling Russia's war against Ukraine

You probably haven't heard that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is preparing to send a mission to Russia. That’s because top IMF officials have been trying to draw as little public attention to their plans as possible – which ought to tell you something. Fund officials themselves know that this is a scandal in the making, write Tymofiy Mylovanov and Nataliia Shapoval in this op-ed.

The IMF is about to send its first official mission to Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.