Carla Conti

And that really stems from Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries across the country.

Crimea carries a symbolic value and a military strategic value for Russia.

They use it as a staging ground and a military supply route for other Russian-occupied regions in Ukraine.

So I think they view that as important to undermine Russia's campaign elsewhere in eastern Ukraine.

I mean, it's quite stark because Russia is one of the largest oil producers and the world is now reportedly planning on importing gasoline this summer.

So I think it really does bring home the costs of this war to the Russian people, that this is causing a huge amount of disruption and hitting their economy, that they should not be having to block production.

gasoline exports because of the shortages and the problems that they're experiencing at refineries.

So I think it's definitely having an impact and potentially undermining Putin's ability to sustain the war.

Food is a political act.

Those are the words that Carlo Petrini lived by, and they led him to something of a cultural revolution under the name Slow Food.

He founded the movement in the 1980s in protest of the spread of fast food culture, including the opening of Italy's first McDonald's in 1986, right by Rome's famous Spanish steps.

Born in 1949 in Bra, a town in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, Petrini spent much of his life arguing that food was never just food.

His ethos, and that of his organization, was simple but groundbreaking, that good, healthy, locally sourced food should be a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

For Petrini, that also meant joining the dots between cuisine, the land, and the people who work it.

That sense of food being both pleasure and responsibility helped turn slow food from a local protest in Italy into a global movement.

Today, it works in more than 160 countries, supporting small producers, defending local food traditions and campaigning for biodiversity.

In 2004, Time magazine named him a European hero.

Four years later, it was the only Italian on the Guardian's list of 50 people who could help save the planet.

But perhaps Petrini put it best himself.

He who sows utopia reaps reality.