Towns in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland of Donbas are being reduced to ash by Russia's advancing forces. Ukraine's leaders, and its soldiers on the battlefield, say it won't stop there.
Putin's naval blockade in the Black Sea has left some 25 million tons of harvested grain to rot at Ukraine's southern ports. Most of it was earmarked for developing countries, including South Sudan. Citing skyrocketing global food costs, the World Food Program has said it's slashing the amount of aid it can provide to 1.7 million people in the impoverished African nation.
A Russian Navy boat of the Black Sea Fleet patrols the entrance to the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine - territory under the control of the pro-Russian, separatist Donetsk People's Republic - on May 30, 2022.They need the weapons to help them protect the country's ports, and also its grain silos, Mayor Borys Filatov of Dnipro, in central Ukraine, told CBS News.
Right now, Filatov said his country desperately needs more weapons from its global partners — not to turn the tide in the war, but to survive. "It's not just that we don't have enough weapons for a counter offensive," he said of the Ukrainian forces battling Russia's offensive in the east."We don't even have enough weapons to effectively defend ourselves."
Ukraine is pleading for more heavy weapons, including 1,000 more drones, 1,000 more howitzer artillery pieces and 500 tanks. While the U.S. government is expected to unveil yet another military aid package soon, thus far the Biden administration has sentof howitzers to Ukraine, not hundreds, and it's unclear how far the White House will go toward meeting Kyiv's request with the next weapons shipment.
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