Destroyed Russian tanks exposed to the public in the city squares
Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on the 90th day of the conflict with Russia.
Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2022, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues.
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Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2022, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues.
Dogukan Keskinkilic | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images
Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2022, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues.
Dogukan Keskinkilic | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images
Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2022, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues.
Dogukan Keskinkilic | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images
Destroyed Russian tanks and military equipment on public display in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 23, 2022, as the Russian-Ukrainian conflict continues.
Dogukan Keskinkilic | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images
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Biden says Russia’s war in Ukraine is a “dark hour in our shared history”
Biden attended a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday in Tokyo, Japan.
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President Joe Biden said the world was in the middle of a “dark hour in our shared history.”
Biden’s comments came as he met with other leaders in Australia, Japan and India, a security group known as the “Quad”.
“This is more than a European problem. It is a global problem,” Biden said, urging leaders to take shared responsibility for countering Russia.
“The world has to face it and we are,” Biden added.
India, a major client of Russian armaments, is the only member of the Quad that has not yet clearly condemned the Kremlin war in Ukraine.
– Amanda Macias
Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba discuss security assistance
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba make a statement after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on April 7, 2022.
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by telephone with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about the ongoing global food security crisis caused by the war of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For weeks, Russian forces have blocked about a dozen Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
“The Secretary-General noted that the global food security crisis stemming from President Putin’s brutal war requires a global response and discussed potential ways to export Ukrainian grain to international markets,” according to a State Department reading. of the call.
Kuleba wrote in a tweet that the two leaders also discussed ways to “unblock Ukraine’s exports and ensure global food security.”
– Amanda Macias
The UN says at least 3,942 people have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war
People are in the middle of graves recently made in a cemetery during the Ukraine-Russia conflict at the Staryi Krym settlement on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, on May 22, 2022.
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The United Nations has confirmed 3,942 civilian deaths and 4,591 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded its former Soviet counterpart on February 24.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said the death toll in Ukraine is likely to be higher, as armed conflict could delay reports.
The international organization said most of the recorded civilian casualties were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide range of impact, including heavy artillery bombardment and multiple rocket launch systems, as well as missiles. and airstrikes.
– Amanda Macias
Wladimir Klitschko says the global consequences of Russia’s war in Ukraine will be “serious.”
The unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia will have serious and far-reaching consequences not only for Russia and Ukraine, but also for the rest of the world, said Wladimir Klitschko, a former Ukrainian professional boxer and brother of the Mayor of Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko.
“We will have a food crisis, with Ukraine coming out of this supply chain – we supply a lot of grain in Africa and Asia – and with the blockade of the Black Sea, it will not happen and the world is taking on these serious consequences,” he said. CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at the World Economic Forum.
“It will knock on the door of every person, every family, every government if we don’t stop it.”
There is a growing alarm over rising global food prices, particularly for commodities such as wheat and cooking oil (Ukraine is a leading global producer of both wheat and sunflower seeds, used by oil), with Russia’s war in Ukraine disrupting production and exports. . Russia has largely blocked grain exports across the Black Sea, leaving Ukraine’s Western allies looking for ways to get their products out of the country.
“Holly Ellyatt.”
The West is much stronger than Russia, says the head of NATO
No one knows how long the conflict will last in Ukraine, but NATO must unite to support Ukraine, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told CNBC.
“The West, NATO partners around the world, are much stronger than Russia, so as long as we support Ukraine and are not directly involved in the war, we are not part of the war … then we can stand out and tackling this invasion, “Stoltenberg told CNBC’s Hadley Gamble on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Stoltenberg said Russia should not be able to “get its way” into Ukraine, as that would make the world “even more dangerous.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had several unintended consequences for Russia, with NATO stronger and more united than in recent years. It will also be expanded with Finland and Sweden announcing that they are applying to join the organization.
Russia is arming the food supply, warns von der Leyen of the EU
Russia is using food supplies as a weapon as it has with energy supplies, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told world leaders in Davos.
“We are witnessing how Russia is assembling its energy supplies. And this is having global repercussions. Unfortunately, we are seeing the same emerging pattern in food security,” von der Leyen told the World Economic Forum.
In Russian-occupied Ukraine, von der Leyen continued, “the Kremlin army is confiscating grain stocks and machinery … Russian artillery is deliberately bombing grain stores throughout Ukraine. And warships Russians in the Black Sea are blocking Ukrainian ships full of wheat and sunflower seeds. “
A farmer is wearing a bulletproof vest during planting crops in the Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine.
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He said that the consequences of these “shameful” acts with the rise in world food prices, especially the price of commodities such as wheat and cooking oil, both of which Ukraine is a major producer and exporter, they are obvious.
“Bread prices in Lebanon have risen by 70% and food shipments from Odessa could not reach Somalia. In addition, Russia is now accumulating its own food exports as a form of blackmail. “Stopping supplies to raise world prices, or trading wheat in exchange for political support,” he said. Such an act amounts to using hunger and grain to wield power, he said.
Russia has blamed the West for rising food prices, saying on Monday it was due to the West and its international sanctions.
“Holly Ellyatt.”
Putin is now receiving “more NATO” because of his invasion, says the head of the alliance
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends a ceremony to commemorate Sweden and Finland’s application for membership in Brussels, Belgium, on May 18, 2022.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had unintended consequences for Russian President Vladimir Putin, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
“He wanted less NATO on his borders, now he has more NATO,” Stoltenberg said in a special address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Stoltenberg’s comments come as relations between Russia and the Western military alliance NATO remain strained after Finland and Sweden announced requests to join the organization.
Although the application process takes time for all existing NATO members to be approved, and Turkey’s objections have not yet been overcome, the expected NATO expansion has bothered Russia with the President Putin described it as “a problem”, although his foreign minister has tried to downplay the importance of enlargement.
“Holly Ellyatt.”
UK looking at how to get grain out of Ukraine, warning of “hunger and starvation” otherwise
Ears of wheat are seen in a field near the village of Zhovtneve, Ukraine.
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The United Kingdom is holding talks with Ukraine on how to get its grain out of the country, a British government minister said on Tuesday.
Russia has blocked Ukraine’s major seaports, blocking the country’s grain exports, which it sees as one of the world’s “bread baskets” as a major exporter of agricultural products, from wheat to turnip oil. alone, and has pushed up world food prices in the world. process.
UK Transport Minister Grant Shapps told Sky News he was deeply concerned about the problem, saying more lives could be lost as a result of the famine.
“What really worries me is that we’ve seen a lot of lives lost in Ukraine and we could see even more lives lost in other parts of the world because of the shortage of grain and food that could be even bigger than the lives lost directly. in war, “he said. dit.
Shapps said he had met with Ukraine’s infrastructure minister Oleksander Kubrakov …