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Wheat blockade ‘a war crime’

A tractor charred by a Russian attack lies inside a warehouse at a grain farm in Cherkaska Lozova, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Photo by Bernat Armangue

Russia is committing a war crime by blocking the export of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain, the European Union's foreign policy chief says, as EU foreign ministers meet to discuss ways to free up the crop amid a global food crisis.

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