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Borrell: Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain war crime

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European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell insisted on Monday that Russia has committed war crimes by not allowing Ukraine to export its grain supplies.

Borrell urged Moscow to stop blocking the export of "millions of tonnes of wheat" at a time when people around the world are "suffering hunger. This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer," he told reporters in Luxembourg.

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