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Odesa, Ukraine mdash; A senior official in eastern Ukraine says Russia is sending more troops into the country in a bid to capture another key city. The governor of the Luhansk region, in Ukraine s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, says Ukrainian forces are having more and more trouble keeping the Russian forces at bay. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian forces now control 20% of his country mdash; a vast swath of the east, along Russia s border.But Russia s troops aren t only squeezing Ukraine by land, they are also cutting off its access to the sea, and as Ukraine has long been dubbed the breadbasket of Europe, that blockade is causing global food shortages. CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay has been in Odesa, the once thriving seaport where the food crisis is coming to a hea air force one d. More than 20 millio adidas original campus n tons of grain are stuck on the city s coast.President Zelenskyy has said the mountain of stalled food could triple in size by this fall unless the Russian forces blockade of the city ends.On Monday, Russia s envoy to the United Nations stormed out of a Security Council meeting in New York as European Commission President Charles Michel lambasted his country for using food supplies as a stealth missile against developing countries. nike sb dunk U.N. cites Ukraine war in grain shortage 02:36 Psyj Country Fast Facts: Guyana
Civilian deaths rose slightly in August from July s figure as a huge suicide attack in the north two weeks ago offset security gains elsewhere, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated stanley flasche Press.U.S. deaths remained well below figures from last winter when the U.S began disp stanley thermos mug atching 30,000 additional troops to Iraq.At least 1,809 civilians w stanley cup ere killed in the month, compared to 1,760 in July, based on figures compiled by the AP from official Iraqi reports. That brings to 27,564 the number of Iraqi civilians killed since AP began collecting data on April 28, 2005.The August total included 520 people killed in quadruple suicide bombings on Yazidi communities near the Syrian border. The horrific attacks made Aug. 14 was the single deadliest day since the war began in March 2003.Eighty-five coalition troops - 81 American and four British - died in August, down from 88 the month before, including 79 Americans. The average rate of 2.74 coalition deaths per day was the second lowest since the surge began, and down from a peak of 4.23 per day in May. U.S. officials have maintained that violence is declining in Iraq in the run-up to a series of reports to Congress this month that will decide the course of the U.S. military presence here.The top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, was quoted Friday as saying the troop increase has sharply reduced sectarian killings in Baghdad. Petraeus is expected to make the same point when he reports to Congress in about two weeks.
Odesa, Ukraine mdash; A senior official in eastern Ukraine says Russia is sending more troops into the country in a bid to capture another key city. The governor of the Luhansk region, in Ukraine s eastern industrial heartland of Donbas, says Ukrainian forces are having more and more trouble keeping the Russian forces at bay. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Russian forces now control 20% of his country mdash; a vast swath of the east, along Russia s border.But Russia s troops aren t only squeezing Ukraine by land, they are also cutting off its access to the sea, and as Ukraine has long been dubbed the breadbasket of Europe, that blockade is causing global food shortages. CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay has been in Odesa, the once thriving seaport where the food crisis is coming to a hea air force one d. More than 20 millio adidas original campus n tons of grain are stuck on the city s coast.President Zelenskyy has said the mountain of stalled food could triple in size by this fall unless the Russian forces blockade of the city ends.On Monday, Russia s envoy to the United Nations stormed out of a Security Council meeting in New York as European Commission President Charles Michel lambasted his country for using food supplies as a stealth missile against developing countries. nike sb dunk U.N. cites Ukraine war in grain shortage 02:36 Psyj Country Fast Facts: Guyana
Civilian deaths rose slightly in August from July s figure as a huge suicide attack in the north two weeks ago offset security gains elsewhere, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated stanley flasche Press.U.S. deaths remained well below figures from last winter when the U.S began disp stanley thermos mug atching 30,000 additional troops to Iraq.At least 1,809 civilians w stanley cup ere killed in the month, compared to 1,760 in July, based on figures compiled by the AP from official Iraqi reports. That brings to 27,564 the number of Iraqi civilians killed since AP began collecting data on April 28, 2005.The August total included 520 people killed in quadruple suicide bombings on Yazidi communities near the Syrian border. The horrific attacks made Aug. 14 was the single deadliest day since the war began in March 2003.Eighty-five coalition troops - 81 American and four British - died in August, down from 88 the month before, including 79 Americans. The average rate of 2.74 coalition deaths per day was the second lowest since the surge began, and down from a peak of 4.23 per day in May. U.S. officials have maintained that violence is declining in Iraq in the run-up to a series of reports to Congress this month that will decide the course of the U.S. military presence here.The top U.S. commander, Gen. David Petraeus, was quoted Friday as saying the troop increase has sharply reduced sectarian killings in Baghdad. Petraeus is expected to make the same point when he reports to Congress in about two weeks.
