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WSJ: Russia refuses to permit grain shipments from Ukraine

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Russia ignored pleas to end the Black Sea blockade preventing Ukraine from transferring most of its grain to international markets. Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, told the UN Security Council on May 19 that Western sanctions against Russia and other factors are to blame for the rise in food prices, not Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

"We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values," Orban said on a weekly radio show. "We are turning to the European Court of Justice."

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