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How Did Russia-Ukraine War Trigger a Food Crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world" and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries. Together, Russia and Ukraine export nearly a third of the world’s wheat and barley, more than 70%…

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EXPLAINER: How did Russia-Ukraine war trigger a food crisis?

Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world.”

The Independent UK

France and Turkey propose rival plans to get grain out of Ukraine

Macron favours land routes to Romania from Odesa whereas Ankara wants to use shipping lanes through Black Sea

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‘Marching towards starvation’: UN warns of hell on earth if Ukraine war goes on

Unprecedented food shortages could spark riots in dozens of countries as Black Sea blockade adds to pressures, says WFP chief

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine says it has struck Russian boat in Black Sea

The Ukrainian navy has claimed that it struck a Russian boat carrying air defense systems to a strategic island in the Black Sea

The Independent UK

Ukraine says it hit Russian tugboat with two Harpoon missiles

Ukraine's armed forces said they struck the Russian navy's Vasiliy Bekh tugboat in the Black Sea with two Harpoon missiles on Friday, the first time Ukraine has said it hit a Russian vessel with the Western-supplied anti-ship rockets.

Reuters

Analysis-Ukrainian dreams of retaking Kherson hinge on Western weapons

For the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retake ground in the wheat fields and empty villages northwest of the city of Kherson, the liberation of one of Ukraine's most strategically important Black Sea cities feels tantalisingly close.

Reuters

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Turkey Says Ukraine Grain Ships Could Avoid Mines, Russia Offers Safe Passage

Russia said on Wednesday it has offered "safe passage" for Ukraine grain shipments from the country's Black Sea ports, but is not responsible for establishing the corridors, as Turkey suggested that ships could be guided around sea mines. Ukrainian grain shipments have stalled since Russia's invasion and ports blockade, stoking…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia offers safe passage for Ukraine grain, not responsible for corridors

Russia can "provide safe passage" for Ukraine grain shipments from the country's Black Sea ports, but is not responsible for establishing the corridors, Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters on Wednesday.

Reuters

Our fragile alliance over Ukraine is wavering as Vladimir Putin’s forces rampage

The news from Ukraine is very grim – to paraphrase Churchill on the fall of France in 1940. The Russians are advancing slowly, steadily, brutally in Donbas. There are hundreds, possibly thousands if civilians are included, of casualties every day. Cholera is reported to be spreading through the uprooted populations…

Evening Standard

Biden touts grain silos on Ukraine border to help exports; Kyiv wants ports open

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that temporary silos would be built along the border with Ukraine in a bid to help export more grain and address a growing global food crisis.

Reuters

Russian Warship Launches Cruise Missiles At Ukrainian Targets

This graphic footage shows a Russian warship in the Black Sea launching a salvo of missiles towards targets in Ukraine.

Zenger

Turkey in efforts to create Black Sea corridor for Ukrainian grain

Turkey is at the centre of efforts to get millions of tonnes of grain from blocked Ukrainian ports onto world markets, to alleviate scarcity and curb soaring food prices. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov visited Turkey this week for talks on the creation of a Black Sea corridor to facilitate…

Radio France Internationale

The sea mines floating between Ukraine’s grain stocks and the world

As the United Nations tries to broker a path for grain from Ukraine and temper worries about a global food crisis, hundreds of mines laid along the Black Sea present a practical nightmare that will take months to resolve even after any agreement.

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Vladimir Putin's mystery girlfriend appears in public for first time after sanctions

Alina Kabaeva, the 39-year-old rumoured to have a hidden family with the Kremlin leader, was spotted in Black Sea resort Sochi at a rhythmic gymnastics training camp with 28 children

Reuters

Russia says no agreement reached with Turkey on Ukrainian grain sale

The Kremlin said on Thursday that no agreement had been reached to sell grain from Ukraine to Turkey - which Ukraine says Russia has stolen from it - but that work on a deal was continuing.

Reuters

'Danger! mines' - Odesa's popular beaches now off limits

Tourists once flocked to the Ukrainian resort of Odesa to lie on its Black Sea beaches, but the white sands are now covered in mines because of the war with Russia and police officers patrol the boardwalks.

The Guardian - UK

The Black Sea blockade: mapping the impact of war in Ukraine on the world’s food supply – interactive

From vast grain stores stuck in Odesa to famine risk in Yemen, a visual guide to the far-reaching effects of Russia’s block on exports

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Ukraine's president says millions could starve because Russia is blockading ports

Millions of people could starve because of Russia's blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday.

France 24

Food held hostage: How to free up Black Sea route for global supplies?

Talk about competing narratives. Russia's foreign minister is in Turkey's capital, where his hosts talked up the prospect of a UN-brokered plan to free up the Black Sea and the food supplies blocked by the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin wants the waters de-mined and the West to lift "sanctions"…

Reuters

Russia attacking Ukraine food targets to scare world, says regional governor

Russia is attacking food and agriculture targets in Ukraine in order to scare the world into agreeing a deal to reopen the Black Sea on Moscow's terms, the head of the region where a major agricultural storage facility was struck on Sunday said.

Radio France Internationale

Russia and Turkey discuss grain blocked in black sea ports

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on a visit to Turkey, said Wednesday that Moscow is ready to ensure the safe passage of vessels from Ukraine as concerns mount over grain stuck in Ukrainian ports.

Reuters

Ukraine's grain crop at risk as silos still half full due to stalled exports

Grain silos in Ukraine's government-controlled territory are about half full in the run-up to this year's harvest, meaning crops could be left in the ground if Russia continues its port blockade, the head of the Ukraine Grain Association said on Wednesday.

Reuters

Ukrainian envoy says Black Sea export agreement only possible with Kyiv's involvement

Ukraine's ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday that no agreement to secure its grain exports via the Black Sea was possible without Kyiv's involvement and accused Russia of putting forward unrealistic proposals such as checking vessels.

The Guardian - UK

Russia and Turkey raise hopes of grain export corridor from Ukraine

Majority of Ukrainian grain exports have been halted since Russia launched full invasion in February

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