“The number of people suffering from severe food insecurity has doubled in two years, to 276 million today,” said UN Secretary General António Guterres, stressing that Russia should allow the safe export of grain stored in Ukrainian ports.

Earlier today, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said “a food crisis threatens a global hunger we cannot endure” after the food crisis the world is facing as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the suspension of wheat production from the two countries , which are considered among the most important exporters to most countries in the world.

The World Bank announced today that it will commit $12 billion over the next 15 months to new projects to tackle the global food crisis, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stressed that “the EU has declared a comprehensive economic war on our country and is looking for reasons to increase sanctions,” and explained that “the rise in food prices around the world is associated with the sanctions imposed against us, Western countries, who want to destroy the Russian economy and did not think about the consequences of this.