US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has accused Russia of using food as a weapon, holding food hostage not only to Ukrainians but to millions of people around the world ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 20 , May , 2022 | War News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Blinken appealed to Russia at the UN Security Council to end the blockade of Ukrainian ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “It seems that the Russian government believes that the use of food as a weapon will help to do what the invasion did not do – to break the spirit of the Ukrainian people,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A senior Moscow official later denied the allegations, saying the Russians were “not idiots” and would not export food while subject to harsh Western sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, dismissed any allegations that the Kremlin was to blame for the global food crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reuters reports that the war in Ukraine has led to rising world prices for grain, oil, fuel and fertilizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Russia and Ukraine account for almost a third of the world’s wheat supplies. In addition, Kyiv is a major exporter of corn, barley, sunflower and rapeseed oil, while Russia and Belarus account for more than 40% of world exports of potash, a nutrient for crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Blinken\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0that the United States will provide an additional $ 215 million in new food aid to Ukraine. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has accused Russia of using food as a weapon, holding food hostage not only to Ukrainians but to millions of people around the world , KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate , 20 , May , 2022 | War News .\u00a0 Quote Blinken appealed to Russia at the UN Security Council to end the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":37862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,10831],"tags":[5686,417,813,4520],"class_list":["post-37860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-war-news","tag-blinken","tag-food","tag-russia","tag-weapon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37863,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37860\/revisions\/37863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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