Offshore from Ras al-Bar, where the Nile flows into the Mediterranean, cargo ships shimmer through the midday haze as they head west along the coast toward the blue loading-cranes on the horizon.
It’s here, at the Egyptian port of Damietta, that the twin impacts of Russia’s war on Ukraine converge.
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