[/ATTACH][BR] A global food crisis is looming if the war in Ukraine does not stop because fertilizer prices are soaring so fast that many farmers can no longer afford them, Russian fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnychenko said on Monday.
Many of Russia's wealthiest businessmen have publicly called for peace since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on February 24, including Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven and Oleg Deripaska. [THE US AND ITS EUROPEAN ALLIES HAVE DESCRIBED PUTIN'S INVASION AS AN IMPERIALIST-STYLE GRAB, WHICH SO FAR HAS NOT BEEN SUCCESSFULLY EXECUTED BECAUSE MOSCOW UNDERESTIMATED UKRAINIAN RESISTANCE AND WESTERN DETERMINATION TO PUNISH RUSSIA.
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