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00:00 Ukrainian Black Sea cities under attack.
00:03 Early Thursday, Russian missiles struck apartment buildings in Mykolaiv.
00:08 In the morning light, residents assessed the damage.
00:11 "How long will they torture us?
00:17 It's the seventh time the town has been targeted.
00:21 We just fixed the house and thought that it's over.
00:24 Thank God the glass didn't fall on the children and nothing happened to them."
00:29 The Black Sea port city of Odessa also being bombarded.
00:33 Civilians caught up in a new strategy by Russia's president
00:37 to use grain as a weapon and make the world suffer for the war.
00:42 "It is the third night that massive air attacks against Odessa port and infrastructure
00:49 is causing not only civilian casualties, but a big destruction of the grain storage there."
00:57 "This is going to create a big, a huge food crisis in the world."
01:02 On Monday, Vladimir Putin pulled out of a deal to allow Ukraine to export grain,
01:07 a huge hit to global supply.
01:10 This will make food more expensive and increase hunger among the world's poorest,
01:15 especially in Africa and the Middle East.
01:17 Zero ships have sailed from Ukrainian ports this week,
01:21 but Germany is pushing the EU to set up alternative routes to allow some grain out of the country.
01:27 "We are working with all partners internationally so that the grain in Ukraine
01:33 does not rot in the silos over the next few weeks,
01:36 but reaches the people around the world who urgently need it."
01:40 Russia says it will only allow Ukrainian exports to resume
01:44 if its own agricultural sanctions are lifted first.