Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 #9

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June 3 2022

Russia-Ukraine War Live: Russia's Artillery Gaining Ground on War's 100th Day

Follow our full coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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''Ukraine: The war entered its 100th day with no end in sight, death tolls and destruction mounting and prolonged repercussions on global food and energy supply. A look at the civilian and military death tolls, numbers of refugees and the economic impact of the war provide evidence of the extent of the devastation.
Even the official refugee count—6.8 million people had fled Ukraine as of May 29—vastly understates the exodus.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a somber, defiant video asserting that “victory will be ours.”
In the Donbas area of Ukraine, Russian forces advanced behind heavy artillery barrages, sending thousands of civilians fleeing.
Russia: While Russia, 100 days into its invasion of Ukraine, faces a deep recession this year from Western sanctions and a long-term erosion of its economic potential, President Vladimir Putin continues to pour Russian lives and military resources into his war mission.
Europe: The European Union’s new sanctions package, which includes a phased-in embargo on most Russian oil, is set to take force on Friday.
Markets: The war is redrawing the world’s energy map, ushering in a new era in which the flow of fossil fuels is influenced by geopolitical rivalries as much as supply and demand.''

Zelensky Says ‘Victory Will Be Ours’ as War Stretches for 100 Days​

By Alina Heineke

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a photo released on June 2.STR/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY

''President Volodymyr Zelensky offered assurances that Ukraine will win the war with Russia as the conflict crossed the 100-day mark on Friday without a clear end in sight.
In a somber video on his official Instagram account, Mr. Zelensky, flanked by closest cabinet members including Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and his adviser Mykhailo Podolyak in the capital, Kyiv, struck a defiant tone.
“The armed forces of Ukraine are here. Most importantly, our people—the people of our nation—are here. We have been defending our country for 100 days already. Victory will be ours! Glory to Ukraine!”
Since the Russian strikes began on Feb. 24, the former comedian and actor has captured the world’s imagination, often dressing in military T-shirts or ballistic vests as he urged people to press the fight, in videos posted to social media from the center of Kyiv.
After more than three months, the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II risks turning into a stalemate, inflicting daily more devastation on Ukraine and driving up food and energy prices world-wide.''

 

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Russia hits Kyiv with missiles; Putin warns West on arms

Russia took aim Sunday at western military supplies for Ukraine, launching airstrikes on Kyiv that it claimed destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as Vladimir Putin warned that any western deliveries of longer-range rocket systems would prompt Moscow to hit 'objects that we haven't yet struck.'

www.ctvnews.ca

June 5, 2022 rbbm
''KYIV, UKRAINE -
Russia took aim at Western military supplies for Ukraine's government with early Sunday airstrikes in Kyiv that it said destroyed tanks donated from abroad, as President Vladimir Putin warned that any Western deliveries of long-range rocket systems to Ukraine would prompt Moscow to hit "objects that we haven't yet struck."
The cryptic threat of a military escalation from the Russian leader didn't specify what the new targets might be, but it comes days after the United States announced plans to deliver US$700 million of security assistance for Ukraine that includes four precision-guided, medium-range rocket systems, helicopters, Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, radars, tactical vehicles, spare parts and more.''

''Russian forces pounded railway facilities and other infrastructure early Sunday in Kyiv, which had previously seen weeks of eerie calm. Ukraine's nuclear plant operator, Energoatom, said one cruise missile buzzed the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear plant, about 350 kilometres (220 miles) to the south, on its way to the capital -- citing the dangers of such a near miss.''


"All this fuss around additional deliveries of weapons, in my opinion, has only one goal: To drag out the armed conflict as much as possible," Putin said, alluding to U.S. plans to supply multiple launch rocket systems to Kyiv. He insisted such supplies were unlikely to change much for the Ukrainian government, which he said was merely making up for losses of rockets of similar range that they already had.

If Kyiv gets longer-range rockets, he added, Moscow will "draw appropriate conclusions and use our means of destruction, which we have plenty of, in order to strike at those objects that we haven't yet struck."

Energoatom said one cruise missile came dangerously close to the Pivdennoukrainsk nuclear power plant. It said the missile "flew critically low" and that Russian forces "still do not understand that even the smallest fragment of a missile that can hit a working power unit can cause a nuclear catastrophe and radiation leak."

 

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JUN 4, 2022

Parent Of Missing Moskva Sailor Says He's Been Questioned By Russian Security And Had Laptop Seized

The father of one of the sailors who is feared to have died in the sinking of the Moskva in April, suspects that authorities are trying to halt him from seeking answers about their fate.

www.rferl.org

Dmitry Shkrebets said he fears authorities will try to plant information on his computer to charge him under an article of the Russian Criminal Code that forbids reporting false information about an act of terrorism.

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Live updates | Russian FM warns West over long-range rockets

MOSCOW — The Russian foreign minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine with long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larg...

www.thestar.com

''MOSCOW — The Russian foreign minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine with long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larger areas of Ukraine.

Speaking during an online news conference Monday, Sergey Lavrov said that “the longer the range of weapons you supply, the farther away the line from where neo-Nazis could threaten the Russian Federation will be pushed.”

The U.S. and Britain have announced they will provide Ukraine with multiple rocket-launchers capable of striking targets up to 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. The systems are capable of firing longer range rockets that can hit areas of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles) away, but U.S. said it wouldn’t supply the rockets.''

In eastern Ukraine, keeping the lights on is a dangerous job

BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) — As the fighting in eastern Ukraine inches forward, Russian attacks are knocking out power, water and gas to entire towns and cities — and the utility crews sent to repair the smashed transmission lines and pipes are finding themselves in the middle of the shelling.

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''Even on quiet days, there is still regular maintenance work to be done.

“People still go to work during the war,” he said with a shrug.

In some hard-hit places, people have been forced to rely on makeshift outdoor ovens and stoves built out of bricks and stones.''
https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...and-politics-fd34c02c14247c39589bd93cd85ff818
“As of today, half of the city is without water. The other half of the city takes water from boreholes,” Oleksandr Marchenko, deputy head of the Bakhmut military administration, said Wednesday. A dam to the north had been blown up, drying up the canal that runs past Bakhmut, he said.

The city has a backup water supply, but downed power lines disrupted the pumping of the water. Engineers hoped to repair the damage if it was safe to do so.

“Unfortunately, the city gets bombed every day,” Marchenko said. As if to prove his point, mortar shells whistled over his head, sending him diving onto a grassy riverbank for cover.

The mortar fire landed with a thump in the northern part of the city, sending up puffs of black smoke.

“There is no gas, no electricity, no water!” thundered Viktor Paramonov as he and a few others on the edge of Bakhmut prepared to cook on a makeshift open-air stove consisting of a wood fire and a metal plate balanced on bricks. “There is nothing.”

 

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Zelenskiy says Russian troops intend to capture the city of Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

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From 5h ago 04.13

'The Russians are levelling Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk' – Luhansk governor​

Oleksandr Senkevych, mayor of Mykolaiv, has said “Explosions are heard in the city. Friends, I ask everyone to go to the shelters. At the very least, follow the rules of the two walls.”

Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv, said that where were no air raid warnings overnight – in contrast to Kyiv region which was struck by missiles.

Serhiy Haidai, Ukraine’s governor of Luhansk, has added some more detail to his reports of the situation around Sievierodonetsk. He posted that “the number of shellings in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk increased tenfold. In the Luhansk region there are many cities with a situation comparable to Mariupol: Now the Russians are levelling Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.”

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JUN 6, 2022

NATO nations block Russian envoy's plane from Serbia visit

Serbia and Russia say a planned visit by Russia’s foreign minister to the Balkan country will not take place.

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Serbia and Russia on Monday formally confirmed that a planned visit by Russia’s foreign minister to the Balkan country will not take place, with Moscow accusing the West of preventing the trip.

The announcement followed reports that Serbia’s neighbors — Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Montenegro — had refused to allow Sergey Lavrov’s plane to fly through their airspace to reach Serbia.

“An unthinkable thing has happened,” Lavrov said during an online news conference Monday. “A sovereign state has been deprived of its right to conduct foreign policies. The international activities of Serbia on the Russian track have been blocked.”

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Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege: AP

Dozens of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks have been returned to Ukraine by the Russian occupiers of the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol, where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow's invasion.

www.ctvnews.ca

June 6, 2022 12:46 p.m. EDT
''KYIV -
Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow's invasion.


Dozens of fighters' bodies recovered from the bombed-out mill's now Russian-occupied ruins have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where DNA testing is underway to identify the remains, said Maksym Zhorin, a military commander and former leader of the Azov Regiment.

The Azov Regiment was among the Ukrainian units that defended the factory for nearly three months before surrendering.''
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''The survivors' fate in Russian hands is shrouded in uncertainty. Zelenskyy said more than than 2,500 fighters who defended the plant are being held prisoner by the Russians, and Ukraine is working on getting them released

The recovery of the fighters' remains from the Azovstal ruins has not been announced by the Ukrainian government, and Russian officials have not commented. But relatives of soldiers killed at the plant discussed the process with The Associated Press.''

 

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Ukraine recovers bodies from steel-plant siege: AP

Dozens of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks have been returned to Ukraine by the Russian occupiers of the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol, where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow's invasion.

www.ctvnews.ca

June 6, 2022 12:46 p.m. EDT
''KYIV -
Russia has begun turning over the bodies of Ukrainian fighters killed at the Azovstal steelworks, the fortress-like plant in the destroyed city of Mariupol where their last-ditch stand became a symbol of resistance against Moscow's invasion.


Dozens of fighters' bodies recovered from the bombed-out mill's now Russian-occupied ruins have been transferred to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, where DNA testing is underway to identify the remains, said Maksym Zhorin, a military commander and former leader of the Azov Regiment.

The Azov Regiment was among the Ukrainian units that defended the factory for nearly three months before surrendering.''
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''The survivors' fate in Russian hands is shrouded in uncertainty. Zelenskyy said more than than 2,500 fighters who defended the plant are being held prisoner by the Russians, and Ukraine is working on getting them released

The recovery of the fighters' remains from the Azovstal ruins has not been announced by the Ukrainian government, and Russian officials have not commented. But relatives of soldiers killed at the plant discussed the process with The Associated Press.''

Did we know 2500 soldiers were surrendered? I didn't realize it was that many. JMO

 

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Zelensky: if Ukrainian army loses control of Sievierodonetsk, returning to it will be costly. President Volodymyr Zelensky said that, if the Russian military fully captured the city, Ukraine would need five times more equipment and people for a counter-offensive.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533909929639157761
Sievierodonetsk in Luhansk Oblast is currently the focal point of fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops. Some observers have called on the Ukrainian army to withdraw from Sieverodonetsk to Lysychansk, which is separated from it by a river and is easier to defend.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533956966976049152
Mayor: Russian troops leave 'almost all' military checkpoints around Melitopol amid Ukrainian advances. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said on June 6 that Ukrainian forces are conducting a successful offensive in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533956967953211396
It was reported on June 5 that almost 60% of Zaporizhzhia Oblast is temporarily occupied by Russian forces.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533981297462452224
Russian forces sustain personnel, equipment losses amid fighting in southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s Operational Command “South” said it killed 26 Russian troops and destroyed 10 units of equipment, including a tank, six armored combat vehicles, two cars, and a howitzer.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533981298611703809
Ukraine’s military also reportedly conducted airstrikes on Russian forces in Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts, including on ammunition depots in the region.

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533990630166339584
Borrell: Russia destroys second-largest grain terminal in Ukraine. The EU’s foreign affairs chief, Josep Borrell, said on Twitter on June 6 that Russia’s destruction of a grain terminal in Mykolaiv is “contributing to the global food crisis.”

https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/1533990631344832512
The grain terminal was struck by a Russian missile on June 4, the flames from which continued to be extinguished until June 6, according to Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych.

 

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Zelenskiy says Russian troops intend to capture the city of Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here

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2h ago20.01

Ukraine needs 60 multiple rocket launchers – many more than the handful promised so far by the UK and US – to have a chance of defeating Russia, according to an aide to the country’s presidency.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to the president’s chief of staff, told the Guardian that while he believed the rocket launchers were “a gamechanger weapon”, not enough had been committed to turn the tide in the war.

“The fewer we get, the worse our situation will be. Our troops will continue to die and we will continue to lose ground,” Arestovych said, particularly if countries with dozens of systems only “decide to donate four or five”.

Arestovych said Ukraine needed many times more multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), which have a range far greater than anything in the country’s existing arsenal.

“If we get 60 of these systems then the Russians will lose all ability to advance anywhere, they will be stopped dead in their tracks. If we get 40 they will advance, albeit very slowly with heavy casualties; with 20 they will continue to advance with higher casualties than now,” he said.

 

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Zelenskiy says Russian troops intend to capture the city of Zaporizhzhia – as it happened

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war here

www.theguardian.com

2h ago20.01

Ukraine needs 60 multiple rocket launchers – many more than the handful promised so far by the UK and US – to have a chance of defeating Russia, according to an aide to the country’s presidency.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a military adviser to the president’s chief of staff, told the Guardian that while he believed the rocket launchers were “a gamechanger weapon”, not enough had been committed to turn the tide in the war.

“The fewer we get, the worse our situation will be. Our troops will continue to die and we will continue to lose ground,” Arestovych said, particularly if countries with dozens of systems only “decide to donate four or five”.

Arestovych said Ukraine needed many times more multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), which have a range far greater than anything in the country’s existing arsenal.

“If we get 60 of these systems then the Russians will lose all ability to advance anywhere, they will be stopped dead in their tracks. If we get 40 they will advance, albeit very slowly with heavy casualties; with 20 they will continue to advance with higher casualties than now,” he said.

I think a consideration here, and something I've wondered about, is when do any of the countries arming Ukraine (hand over fist) hit that spot where they are jeopardizing their own security? JMO

 

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I think a consideration here, and something I've wondered about, is when do any of the countries arming Ukraine (hand over fist) hit that spot where they are jeopardizing their own security? JMO

This lengthy article alludes to your concern about supplying arms to Ukraine.. rbbm.

Can the U.S. and NATO provide Ukraine with enough weapons?

It’s not clear the U.S. and other NATO members can sustain even the current level of weapons deliveries.

www.nbcnews.com

March 31, 2022, 1:21 PM EDT
''By Dan De Luce and Ken Dilanian
Russia’s faltering campaign in Ukraine and the relative success of Ukrainian forces in fending off the invasion have forced the U.S. and other NATO governments to consider providing military aid for Kyiv on a scale Western leaders never anticipated, current and former officials say.
It’s not clear, however, that the U.S. and other NATO members can sustain even the current level of weapons deliveries.

The White House says that it has moved swiftly in an unprecedented way to get weapons in the hands of Ukrainians fighting the Russian troops, and that U.S. officials are working with NATO allies to keep the arms moving to Ukraine.
Since the Russian invasion began on Feb. 24, U.S. cargo planes have unloaded hundreds of anti-aircraft Stingers, thousands of anti-tank weapons, millions of rounds of ammunition and other gear destined for Ukraine’s armed forces, according to the White House. The weapons deliveries to Eastern Europe came as President Joe Biden recently approved more than $1 billion of military assistance for Ukraine in less than a week.
But these commitments threaten to deplete the existing supplies of some munitions, according to John Schaus of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank.

Under recent decisions, the United States will deliver about 4,600 Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine, the White House says. That would account for more than half of the 8,885 Javelins the Defense Department bought in the past 10 years, said Schaus.

Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain, Vadym Prystaiko, warned last week that its current supply of arms will run out soon as their forces are burning through the supplies at a rapid rate. Canada said it will now purchase military gear to send to Ukraine as it could not draw any further from its own supplies without undermining its own defense needs.

In Washington, lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern the Biden administration has yet to lay out a plan on how it will replenish the stocks of weapons being provided to Ukraine. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, and the ranking Republican member, Rep. Mike Rogers of Alabama, recently wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin demanding the Pentagon explain how it intends to ramp up production to replace Stingers sent to Ukraine.''

 

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Zelenskiy says stalemate with Russia is ‘not an option’ – as it happened

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2h ago 08.04
Ukraine would need about six months to clear the water around its Black Sea ports of mines, even if the Russian blockade were lifted, according to Ukraine’s first deputy minister of agrarian policy and food, Taras Vysotskyi.

If Russia refused to lift its blockade, then Ukraine would only be able to export a maximum of 2m tonnes of grain a month, Vysotskyi said. Before the war, Ukraine was able to export up to 6m tonnes of grain a month.

More than 20m tonnes of grain are stuck in Ukraine’s silos and the country has faced severe capacity constraints while trying to export its grain by road, river and rail to help avert a global food crisis.

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1h ago 08.27
The leader of Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, has confirmed the death of a Russian general during the war in Ukraine.

The death of Maj Gen Roman Kutuzov was reported earlier by a reporter of state-run Rossiya 1, who said he was killed while leading forces from the Russian-controlled east into battle.

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1h ago 08.49

Russian defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, said Moscow’s forces have control of 97% of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Russian forces have seized residential quarters of the key eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and are fighting to take control of an industrial zone on its outskirts and the nearby towns, Shoigu said.

Luhansk governor, Serhiy Haidai, conceded that Russian forces control the industrial outskirts of the city, telling Associated Press:

"Toughest street battles continue, with varying degrees of success. The situation constantly changes, but the Ukrainians are repelling attacks."

In nearby Lysychansk, the other Donbas city holding out against the Russian invasion, Russian troops shelled a local market, a school and a college building, destroying the latter, Haidai said. He said:

"A total destruction of the city is underway, Russian shelling has intensified significantly over the past 24 hours. Russians are using scorched earth tactics."

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@CSIDreamer, I wonder the same thing. Frequently.

 

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The last thing I want to see is our best option to defend ourselves (the US), or NATO to come down to nuclear weapons because we've collectively given away our military equipment. If you really want to see "scorched earth" there you go. JMO

 

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Zelenskiy says stalemate with Russia is ‘not an option’ – as it happened

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1h ago 00.48
More than 31,000 Russian servicemen have already died in Ukraine, president Zelenskiy has claimed, adding that the frontline situation has not changed significantly over the past 24 hours.

“The hottest spots are the same. First of all, Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Popasna,” he said in his latest address.

"More than 31,000 Russian servicemen have already died in Ukraine. Since February 24, Russia has been paying almost 300 lives a day for a completely pointless war against Ukraine. And still the day will come when the number of losses, even for Russia, will exceed the permissible limit."

1h ago 01.00
Ukraine is launching a ‘Book of Executioners’, a system to collate evidence of war crimes Kyiv says were committed during Russia’s occupation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.

Ukrainian prosecutors say they have registered more than 12,000 alleged war crimes involving more than 600 suspects since the Kremlin started its invasion on 24 February.

Zelenskiy said this would be a key element in his longstanding pledge to bring to account Russian servicemen who have committed what Ukrainian authorities have described as murders, rape and looting.

“These are concrete facts about concrete individuals guilty of concrete cruel crimes against Ukrainians,” Zelenskiy said.

He cited the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, where investigators found what they say is evidence of mass executions.

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More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms

Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine's inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.

www.cp24.com

''BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) - Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine's inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.

At the same time, Ukrainian and Russian forces battled fiercely for control of Sievierodonestk, a city that has emerged as central to Moscow's grinding campaign to capture Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, known as the Donbas.

As the fighting dragged on, the human cost of the war continued to mount. In many of Mariupol's buildings, workers are finding 50 to 100 bodies each, according to a mayoral aide in the Russian-held port city in the south.''

Petro Andryushchenko said on the Telegram app that the bodies are being taken in an “endless caravan of death” to a morgue, landfills and other places. At least 21,000 Mariupol civilians were killed during the weeks-long Russian siege, Ukrainian authorities have estimated.

The consequences of the war are being felt far beyond Eastern Europe because shipments of Ukrainian grain are bottled up inside the country, driving up the price of food.''

Ukraine, long known as the “bread basket of Europe,” is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but much of that flow has been halted by the war and a Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea coast. An estimated 22 million tons of grain remains in Ukraine. The failure to ship it out is endangering the food supply in many developing countries, especially in Africa.

 

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More bodies found in Mariupol as global food crisis looms

Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine's inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.

www.cp24.com

''BAKHMUT, Ukraine (AP) - Workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol, authorities said Wednesday, while fears of a global food crisis escalated over Ukraine's inability to export millions of tons of grain through its blockaded ports.

At the same time, Ukrainian and Russian forces battled fiercely for control of Sievierodonestk, a city that has emerged as central to Moscow's grinding campaign to capture Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, known as the Donbas.

As the fighting dragged on, the human cost of the war continued to mount. In many of Mariupol's buildings, workers are finding 50 to 100 bodies each, according to a mayoral aide in the Russian-held port city in the south.''

Petro Andryushchenko said on the Telegram app that the bodies are being taken in an “endless caravan of death” to a morgue, landfills and other places. At least 21,000 Mariupol civilians were killed during the weeks-long Russian siege, Ukrainian authorities have estimated.

The consequences of the war are being felt far beyond Eastern Europe because shipments of Ukrainian grain are bottled up inside the country, driving up the price of food.''

Ukraine, long known as the “bread basket of Europe,” is one of the world's biggest exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, but much of that flow has been halted by the war and a Russian blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea coast. An estimated 22 million tons of grain remains in Ukraine. The failure to ship it out is endangering the food supply in many developing countries, especially in Africa.

A. Cannot they not ship grain out through Poland or one of their neighbors?

B. Landfills? Are they kidding? Russians think it's appropriate to put people THEY murdered in landfills? They are SICK.

JMO