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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2022 16:08:02 GMT
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin's army has used a range of tactics and military hardware to try to gain an advantage in the war. But Russia's latest weapon in the war could have global consequences - food.
In the initial stages of the war, Russia moved its troops and tanks with support from attack helicopters and superior air power, but Ukraine largely repelled their advances. Russia is now focussed on a massive artillery and long-range scorched earth assault - flattening everything in its path.
But, throughout the campaign there has been a consistent target to undermine Ukraine's stability and effectiveness in the war - food supplies and exports.
Stopping Ukraine from exporting food is cutting it off from crucial financial resources but there are growing fears of a much deadlier cost.
The EU’s foreign policy chief has declared that Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian grain is a war crime, preventing millions of tonnes from leaving ports while people around the world are suffering from hunger.
Meanwhile, Moscow has been taking convoys of stolen grain out of occupied areas into Russia itself.
President Zelenskyy said Ukraine was engaged in “complex negotiations” to unblock the grain, but fears are increasing that millions of people will be exposed to food shortages.
So, will Putin use food to gain an advantage of Ukraine and its allies, or can the world solve the problem of food?
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 2:50:17 GMT
As Russia gains ground in Ukraine, the country's defense ministry claims to have taken the Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, the last Ukrainian-held city in the Luhansk region. Victory in the region would make Moscow one step closer to its goal of seizing all of the Eastern Donbas region. President Zelenskyy tonight promising to return.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 14:12:39 GMT
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov posted several videos on his Telegram channel which he said showed Chechen soldiers in Lysychansk.
The soldiers are seen in one video holding their flag and a Soviet-style banner of victory on top of an administrative building.
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2022 19:16:05 GMT
Vladimir Putin has declared victory in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk after Moscow took control of Lysychansk, the last city still in Ukrainian hands.
President Zelenskyy vowed that his forces would recapture the territory, thanks to new powerful weapons from western allies, but Russia is pushing on, determined to capture the whole of the eastern Donbas region.
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Post by Admin on Jul 5, 2022 18:17:11 GMT
‘Russia will try to drag this war out for as long as they can’’ - Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko 1,357 views Jul 6, 2022 Lesia Vasylenko is a Ukrainian politician and human rights lawyer.
Since the war in Ukraine began, we’ve spoken to her many times on Channel 4 News, but she joins Krishnan to talk about what it was like to have to send her children to another country when the war in Ukraine began. She also discusses her first impression of President Zelenskyy and how she believes this war might end.
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