Russia’s announcement of a temporary unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine is “not credible”, the EU’s top diplomat said, labelling it “hypocrisy”. | AFP
But artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in the country’s east on Friday despite Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to stop attacking for 36 hours.
Borrell called for “concrete actions on the ground”, including “a complete halt of military attacks”.“In the absence of such concrete actions, a unilateral ceasefire seems to be an attempt by Russia to buy time to regroup its troops and try to repair its damaged international reputation.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an agricultural powerhouse, sent world food prices spiralling to their highest level on record for a full year in 2022, UN figures showed on Friday.
Borrell said Russia was using “propaganda” to blame European sanctions for the spiking food and energy prices. “That’s totally false,” he said. “It’s the Russian army that destroyed the grain silos, planted mines in the fields, destroyed the roads and blockaded Ukraine’s ports.”
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