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Russian blockade of Ukraine’s ports puts global food supply at risk

May 13, 2022admin

The Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports risks causing a global food crisis, given that Ukraine is one of the world’s top agricultural exporters. Analysts say this shows how Russia is weaponising food in its geopolitical games – but it’s a weapon the EU plans to neutralise by creating a land corridor to Poland’s […]

How Russian oligarchs are sailing their yachts from Europe to Turkey to avoid sanctions

May 10, 2022admin

When a number of uber-wealthy Russian businessmen and politicians were slapped with sanctions by the European Union and the United States after the invasion of Ukraine, many of them did what they could to spirit away the assets. In some cases, those assets included yachts, some the size of whales. In recent weeks, online investigators […]

Russian volunteers help welcome Ukrainian refugees at Paris’s Gare de l’Est

April 24, 2022admin

/ Europe war in ukraine Issued on: 23/04/2022 – 12:16 02:06 Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees pass through Paris’s Gare de l’Est where many Russian volunteers facilitate their arrival. © France 24 Text by: Jonathan WALSH | Ania ZALENSKAIA 1 min Since the war began more than 5 million Ukrainians have fled the country, with nearly 45,000 […]

Russian ‘war crimes’ in Ukraine’s Bucha spark global outrage

April 5, 2022admin

Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed deliberately at close range. The images of battered bodies out in the open or in hastily dug graves […]