Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and ease an international food crisis while the US pledged more military support five months into the invasion.
The White House announced fresh support of around $270m to Kyiv, including $100m for drones, and is also doing preliminary work on whether to send fighter aircraft, although it said that would not happen in the near term.
"Society believes that all the territories must be liberated first, and then we can negotiate about what to do and how we could live in the centuries ahead," he said. The February 24 invasion of Ukraine has caused Europe's biggest conflict since 1945, forcing millions to flee and turning entire cities to rubble. The Kremlin says it is engaged in a"special military operation" to demilitarise and"denazify" Ukraine. Both Kyiv and Western nations say the war is an unprovoked act of aggression.
Moscow has denied responsibility for the crisis, blaming instead sanctions for slowing its own food and fertiliser exports and Ukraine for mining the approaches to its Black Sea ports.
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