a few seconds agoUN warns hunger crisis, Kiev: Russia is stealing our grain and selling it in Africa
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Kiev openly accuses Moscow of stealing over 600 thousand tons of wheat to resell it abroad. What initially seemed to be propaganda is now finding confirmation. For the first time in eight years, freight trains filled with cereals are traveling from Donbas to Crime and then on to Russia leave with [...]
The chief of the military-civile administration in Zaporizian controlled by Russians Evgenij Balitsky said this publicly.
We're sending grain through Russia. The main contracts have been closed with Turkey. The first trains have passed the Crime at the Middle East destination”, Evgenij Balitskij said.
In May, the US warned potential purchasing states, following intelligence information that Russian ships loaded with Ukrainian wheat were traveling to Africa. But the 14 countries that have received the official message do not have many solutions while in full food emergencies.
According to Washington, Russian soldiers have extracted 500 thousand tons of wheat from Ukraine, worth $100 million. While diplomacy has been put to work to open a safe corridor for unblocking exports from Ukraine, Moscow said Kiev must decapitate the waters in the Black Sea to allow the opening of corridors.
The issue was the focus of Sergei Lavrov's visit to Ankara, but there were no significant developments. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that millions of people could starve to death due to the Russian blockade in Ukrainian ports.
The Russian server blocked Ukraine's Black Sea ports, bringing the world to the brink of a terrible food crisis. It's not just a price crisis. We cannot export wheat, corn, sunflower oil and other goods that played a stabilising role in the global market. Millions of people can die of hunger if Russian blockades in the Black Sea continue”, Zelensky said.
The chief of the United Nations organization, Antonio Guterres, warned that the global effects of the Russian war were worsening in Ukraine, affecting 1.6 billion people. Guterres said the impact of the conflict on food security, energy and finance is systematic and is accelerating. According to the UN, war threatens the world with a hunger crisis and unprecedented poverty.
