Volodymyr Zelensky warns of food crisis and urges end to Russian blockade


Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asks for international pressure to end the Russian naval blockade of Black Sea ports that has cut off his country’s grain exports, threatening a global food crisis. “The world will face an acute and severe food crisis and famine, in many countries of Asia and Africa,” Zelensky says in a video address to the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore.

©AFP

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