The number of ships looking to pick up grain cargoes from the Black Sea area fell 35% week on week amid growing uncertainty over whether commercial traffic could be hit as Russia continues to pound food facilities in Ukraine. Russia arrested Igor Girkin, a former battlefield commander of its proxy forces in eastern Ukraine who was convicted by a Dutch court over the shooting down of MH17, on extremism charges probably fuelled by his criticism of the Russian war effort in Ukraine. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, condemned a Russian artillery attack in Donetsk that he said killed two children and damaged a school. The Ukrainian representative described his Russian counterpart as an “oddball” and accused Russia of “attempting to eliminate a market competitor, to deliberately raise global food prices and make profit at the expense of millions around the world”. He claimed that 70% of the exports entered high- and upper-middle income economies, while barriers to Russian exports remained. The Russian representative accused the western members of the security council of “hiding the truth”. At a meeting of the UN security council, the US representative said: “ It seems every single week, Russia stoops to a new low.” She added that Russia was “waging war on the world’s food supply” and that the country had “upended peace and security around the world”.
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