The End of Russia and Ukraine’s Grain Deal Is Bad News For The Global Food Supply
A worker cleans grain after trucks unloaded in a grain elevator in Melitopol, Ukraine.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In July 2022, the United Nations and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped broker the Black Sea Grain Initiative: A deal between Russia and Ukraine…
What It Was Like to Be in Russia and Watch a Failed Coup
Members of the Wagner Group military company load their tank onto a truck on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, before leaving the headquarters of the Southern Military District.AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This essay is anonymous in order to protect the…
Mercenary Group Head Announces His Forces Have Halted Their Advance to Moscow
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin delivers a video address. Gavril Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, June 24, 2:30 p.m. ET: Wagner Group Chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin said his forces were turning around. The announcement came after President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus reportedly made…
It’s Official: US Determines Russia has Committed “Crimes Against Humanity” in Ukraine
Sven Hoppe/dpa/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris told an international security gathering that the United States has formally determined that Russian forces have committed “crimes against humanity” during their invasion of Ukraine. “Let us be clear: Russian forces…
“An Abyss of Fear and Wild Lawlessness”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Signs of the Russian presence linger everywhere in the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. In shops, vendors still sell “Crimea” brand lemonade, made in Russia. Hanging from billboards are exhortations that “Russians and Ukrainians are one people”—old-fashioned…
Scenes of Joy Spread in Ukraine After Russia’s Withdrawal From Kherson
STR/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly nine months, the people of Kherson, Ukraine, had been living under Russian occupation, with countless families forced to live without basic means including food, running water, and electricity. But after Russian troops suddenly announced a retreat from…