The decision to weaponize food is Moscow’s and Moscow’s alone. It also shows that President Putin is fully aware that his aggression threatens the world with hunger. Russia itself chose to stop its own exports of many sorts of grain due to the war and decided to only feed “friendly nations” This aggravates the situation further. To add to the insult, credible reports indicate that Putin’s armies may be transporting wheat out of Ukraine that is intended for countries in dire need of wheat imports to Russian-controlled areas. Twenty million tons of existing grain have been prevented from being exported from Ukraine to countries around the world, including Egypt. Because of Russia’s aggression, this season’s yields in Ukraine will decrease by 50 percent and Ukrainian farmers may not be able to sow winter wheat.
The cause of the grain crisis is easily seen in every wheat field that Russian bombs have destroyed, every farmer killed and every Ukrainian ship blocked in Black Sea ports by Russian forces. The solution to this immediate crisis is thus a simple one: Russia needs to stop its brutal war against Ukraine and withdraw its troops from Ukraine immediately. It is Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine that endangers the supply of grain to the world. All signs point towards even harder challenges to come. The price for wheat in world markets is at an all-time high, at 160% of pre-crisis levels. The Ambassadors of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the EU in Cairo
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