Ukrainian tanks fire from fields of wheat as Zelensky warns of world food crisis
A UKRAINIAN tank fires from a field of wheat — as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Russia’s invasion was triggering a world food crisis.
The T-64BV led a fightback outside Soledar, in the embattled eastern region of Donbas.
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In nearby Kostiantynivka a dog named Buddy was pictured near his destroyed home after a Russian attack, and a shelled house blazed in the city of Lysychansk.
Meanwhile Mr Zelensky accused Vladimir Putin’s war machine of blockading ports and plundering grain needed in Asia and Africa.
Speaking on a video link to a defence summit in Singapore, he said: “That hurts not just Ukrainians, but the entire world.”
He blamed the invasion for soaring commodity and energy prices — and said Putin was now doing the same with food.
He added: “It is on the battlefields of Ukraine that the future rules of this world are being decided along with the boundaries of the possible.”
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US prez:‘We were ignored
By Liam Coleman
JOE Biden has said Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky “didn’t want to hear it” when he warned him that Russia had troops lined up on the border ready to invade.
The US president, 79, was speaking to donors at a party hosted by Hollywood producer Jeffrey Katzenberg in Los Angeles.
He said: “Nothing like this has happened since World War Two.
“A lot of people thought I was maybe exaggerating. But I knew we had data.”
Mr Biden acknowledged that a full-scale assault may have seemed far-fetched at the time.
He accused Putin of “trying to obliterate the culture” of Ukraine and said the Kremlin leader saw capital Kyiv as “the seat of mother Russia”.
Mr Zelensky has faced tough questions over his lack of preparation in the weeks before the invasion
