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War crime investigators prepare case against Russia over food attacks

Human rights lawyers believe Kremlin is ‘intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare’

War crimes investigators say they aim to bring the first international prosecution for starvation following Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian food supplies and farming.

The targeting of Ukraine’s agriculture, its farmland and grains stocks, and even civilians searching for food, amounts to a weaponisation of starvation and a clear war crime, investigators argue.

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