Today’s Russia/Ukraine Update

🇺🇦 Both sides gathered reinforcements in eastern Ukraine over the weekend, as they prepare for what’s likely to be the war’s biggest battles in the coming days and weeks, per the WSJ.

• Local officials said at least 52 Ukrainians were killed – including five children – in a Russian airstrike on Friday targeting a train station that was being used to evacuate civilians.
• Ukraine has opened 5,600 cases of alleged war crimes since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova told the UK’s Sky News yesterday.
• Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow today, marking the first in-person meeting between an EU leader and Putin since war started.

How the invasion is impacting…

🌾🌽 Food: Global food prices hit a new high last month according to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization’s index, which rose 12.6% to notch its highest-ever recorded level.

• Between them, Russia and Ukraine accounted for 30% of global wheat exports, and 20% of global maize exports over the past three years. 
• Ukraine is also the world's biggest supplier of sunflower seed oil.

🎤🎸 Music: Legendary rock band Pink Floyd reunited for its first original song since 1994, featuring vocals from Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian Band Boombox; proceeds from the track are going to the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.