Russia escalates attacks on Ukrainian food export facilities, threatening global food crisis.
KYIV, Ukraine – Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row on Friday, July 21, and practiced seizing ships in the Black Sea in an escalation of what Western leaders say is an attempt to wriggle out of sanctions by threatening a global food crisis.
Moscow has described the attacks as revenge for a Ukrainian strike on a Russian-built bridge to Crimea – the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula seized by Moscow in 2014. It accuses Ukraine of using the sea corridor to launch “terrorist attacks.” The UN Security Council was due to meet later over Russia’s exit from the grain deal, which aid groups say is vital to fend off hunger in poor countries.
NATO military alliance member Poland has been reinforcing its border with Belarus, where Russia’s Wagner mercenary force has taken up residency after a failed mutiny last month.
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