The high cost of the Russia-Ukraine war

Global effect: Houses destroyed in Sumy, Ukraine, by Russian shelling on March 8 in this picture from social media. If the war is prolonged, inflation rates will remain high globally for some time. — Reuters

IT has been almost three weeks since the Russo-Ukrainian war began in earnest, unleashing the largest conventional military conflict since World War II.

Thousands of lives, both soldiers and civilians, have been lost in the fighting that began on Feb 24, 2022. Reports indicate that the war has already displaced more than two million people from their homes, most of them women and children.