(Reuters) - Rosneft appointed a Mandarin-speaker to head global trading operations, six sources told Reuters on Thursday as Russia's top oil producer .
Meanwhile, the first Russian soldier to face trial for killing a civilian has asked the man's widow for "forgiveness." Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has warned of a long war.
European-born executives at Rosneft quit the Russian oil giant days before the EU sanctions banning European citizens from working at the state-held Russian firm entered into force
Five foreign vice-presidents of Russia’s Rosneft have resigned because of European Union sanctions forbidding European citizens or Russians living in the EU to…