The Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is credited with easing the global food crisis resulting from the war in Ukraine, is set to expire Monday amid rising concerns that Moscow will not renew the deal. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres sent Russian President Vladimir Putin a letter this week with a proposal to keep the deal operational but, as of Friday, Russia had not responded.
In Ukraine, South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in Kyiv on Saturday, making him one of a handful of Asian leaders to visit the war-torn nation. He visited Bucha, the site of mass killings, and will lay a wreath of remembrance in the capital before meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to the country’s Yonhap news agency. Seoul has so far sent humanitarian and financial aid to Ukraine but is under pressure to send weapons.
Here’s the latest on the war and its impact across the globe.
But if it were up to Zaluzhny alone, this isn’t how he’d get the job done. He would fight with air superiority. He would fire back at least as many shells as the Russians are firing. And he would have cruise missiles that could match Moscow’s. Instead, modern fighter jets are not expected for months, Ukraine’s ammunition supply is constrained, and allies have placed restrictions on materials they’ve provided — they can’t be used to strike Russian soil.
“To save my people, why do I have to ask someone for permission what to do on enemy territory?” Zaluzhny recently told The Washington Post in a rare interview. “This is our problem, and it is up to us to decide how to kill this enemy.”