Ukraine and Israel traded diplomatic blows on Tuesday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned what he said were grain purchases from occupied Ukrainian territory "stolen" by Russia and threatened sanctions against those attempting to profit from it.
Kyiv considers all grain produced in the four ?regions that Russia claims as its own since invading Ukraine in 2022,?as well as Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in ?2014, to ?be stolen and has protested over its export to other countries.
Russia calls the regions its "new ?territories,"?but they are still internationally recognized as Ukrainian. Moscow has not commented on the legal status of grain collected in them.
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