oleg ustenko, thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you. >>> and joining me now have cnn nationalreporter at the voice of america news. let's put this point of the conflict into context, if we can. now what we're seeing is more broadly long range missile attacks on cities all across ukraine. >> yeah. well, you know, i think we're at this point in the conflict where pup putin has taken a war of choice and taken it take war of necessity for him. he needs more gains to go to the negotiating table. we're going to be seeing much more, i think, much more broad brush effort and then this continuing sieges. i think some of these strikes we have seen in the western part of ukraine may be related to trying to prevent supplies, by hitting airports. >> nonetheless, lutsk is close to poland, very close. >> 60 miles from nato country, right? >> what does that mean, what does that signify, even if it sends a message about airports and air strips, what does that signify? >> what we have seen in the past days and weeks that is not only eastern ukraine that is under attack, it is not only kyiv or m

you thank you so much mister oleg ustenko, i appreciate your time and continue to wish you any country meant safety. vladimir putin and his army continues their relentless invasion of ukraine, bombing indiscriminately, leveling homes and villages with no regard for civilian life as we were just hearing there. and it's a strategy that we've seen before from the russian president. next, what's russia's brutal assault on aleppo in syria revealed about putin's playbook that we are now seeing in ukraine. just how far he's willing to go. stay with us. stay with us d cracked, i chose safelite. they replaced the glass and recalibrated my safety system. that's service i can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ben isn't worried about retirement his personalized plan is backed by the team at fidelity. his ira is professionally managed, and he gets one-on-one coaching when he needs it. so ben is feeling pretty zen. that's the planning effect from fidelity at jp morgan, the only definition of wealth that matters is yours. it can be a smaller house, but a bigger nest egg. a goa

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oleg ustenko, an economic adviser to ukraine's presidents zelensky wrote in the financial times recentlyular window. wrote in the financial times recently, "the regular window for starting field work is the first ten days of march. and planting needs to be fully completed in the last week of april. he added some of these fields are likely to be mined or contained unexploded ordinance," which he says will need to be removed before crops are grown. that would make coping without the food grown in ukraine's fields just one more long—term problem when it comes to the world's food supplies. in the case of food prices, in some parts of the world, especially, for instance, in africa, you see high pass through, but a lot more effect will probably show up in 2023 because there tends to be a lag. that could lead to social unrest in different parts of the world. we are in a period where we have big inflation. what does the future hold for food prices? kona lasker haque is the head of research at ed&f man, a london based agricultural commodities merchant, commodities merchant, which trades globally

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yes, this afternoon i spoke with president zelenskyy's top economic adviser, oleg ustenko it was over zoom and from a location in ukraine that could not be disclosed for security reasons. he urged the west to cut off purchases of russian oil and gas, calling the $1 billion sent daily to russia, quote, blood money that finances the russian war machine and devastation of ukraine and its people. >> it's just incredible because whoever is buying this oil and gas today, they are responsible also for financing this aggressive russian, putin's, russia's machine, which kills our people and do all of these terrible dark ages things in my country. so for us, it's extremely important to cut off them from these bloody money receipts. and we do believe that by doing this, we will be able really to hit the russians very hard >> ustenko said he has family stuck in an occupied town of kyiv he said a neighbor gave a family member a chicken to eat today and that's all there was heat comes only from a fireplace, he was told officials are told vast parts of the country are without power and many without