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'We have no say in what the military does, but we pay the price' - resident in city of BakhmutThe Ukrainian military has endangered Ukrainian civilians by establishing bases and operating weapons systems in residential areas - including in schools and hospitals - as it has sought to repel the Russian invasion, Amnesty International said today.
'Being in a defensive position does not exempt the Ukrainian military from respecting international humanitarian law' - Agnès Callamard
Rocket sirens sound in the southern cities of Ashkelon of Ashdod, as well as the town of Sderot and a number of Gaza border communities as a barrage of projectiles is fired from the Strip.
Missile defense systems intercept at least two projectiles.
There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Earlier on Saturday the Israel Defense Forces said at least 160 rockets have been fired at Israel since Friday afternoon, however dozens more have been launched from Gaza since that update.
Comment: It's times like these where governments are supposed to intervene and provide assistance to farmers, however, as we've seen across much of the West, at best farmers are left to suffer the consequences of disastrous government policy, and at worst are being intentionally driven from their land with the intent to use this partly manufactured crisis to further a nefarious agenda.
Meanwhile in China, as early as June 2021, on seeing the rising costs of commodities (and likely expecting much worse to come), their government provided its farmers with billions in additional subsidies, ithas also ensured it has at least a years worth of certain produce to keep its citizens going when there are shortages; and that much is inevitable, for some products it's already happening.
And over in Russia, one of the world's largest grain producers, it has been at the forefront of the efforts to distribute desperately needed grain and fertilizers, both to its people and those in need across the planet.
At some point soon enough the West's attack on the already strained food supply will lead to unbearable conditions and there will be devastating consequences both for the world's poorest countries, as well citizens in the West who let their leaders get away with it: