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Video shows Russians stealing Ukrainian grain from occupied city.

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Kremlin-controlled media outlet RIA Novosti posted a video of Russia-backed militants stealing Ukrainian grain from the elevators in Starobilsk, a newly-occupied city in Luhansk Oblast. In the video, they load grain into railway cars to ship it to Russia. The video says that "the first 650 tons of grain" was shipped to Russia.

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In the latest episode of Ukraine This Week, the Kyiv Independent’s Anna Belokur reports on another failed round of U.S.-Russia diplomacy over a controversial peace plan, as Moscow presses ahead on the battlefield and advances in and near Pokrovsk.

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Russia failed to break Ukraine’s army on the battlefield, and now it’s trying to do it through a peace plan that would cap Ukraine’s forces at 600,000. Some argue that Ukraine would shrink its army — currently estimated at about 800,000 — after the war anyway.

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