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Russia’s war in Ukraine pushes global food prices to ‘new all-time high.’

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The UN Food and Agriculture agency said on April 8 that food commodity prices averaged 159.3 points on the FAO Food Price Index in March, a 12.6% increase since February, when prices reached their highest since 1990. Prices of wheat, coarse grains, and vegetable oils have all increased.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Jared Goyette speaks with a Canadian volunteer, Brittney Shki-Giizis, who left the Canadian military to fight in Ukraine. A former tank instructor, she explains why she chose to come to the front, how she learned Ukrainian to serve in a Ukrainian unit, and how the war’s shift toward drones led her to become an FPV (first-person view) drone pilot.

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