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Harvest, Aleksandr Makvsky, 1896, oil on panel, National Museum, Warsaw.

UKRAINE. RUSSIA. Shredded wheat.

Grain prices spike on further Black Sea attacks.

Russian drones attacked the port of Izmail on Wednesday, preventing ships that had defied Moscow's blockade from loading Ukrainian wheat. Moscow said it would return “immediately” to…