US President Joe Biden said the West intends to build grain elevators on the border with Ukraine to facilitate the export of grain stuck in Black Sea ports.
Biden said in a speech in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, America: “I am working closely with our European partners to bring to market the 20 million tons of grain stuck in Ukraine to help drive down food prices.” time.”
The President of the United States blamed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for the rise in food prices in the United States and considered that “Putin’s war is not only an attempt to destroy the culture of Ukrainians, annihilate people and commit countless war crimes, but also to prevent exports grains; Thousands of tons of suspended grains.
He pointed out that “the export of Ukrainian grain by land transport is facing difficulties due to differences in the standards of Ukrainian railways from the standards of neighboring countries. These elevators, and from them to train cars in Europe, and their delivery to the world.”
Ukraine is the world’s fourth largest grain exporter, and its authorities said that “about 30 million tons of grain are stored on controlled lands, and they are trying to ship it by land, by sea or by rail.”
The United Nations has warned more than once of a world food crisis due to grain shortages, while the West has accused Russia of obstructing the export of Ukrainian grain to world markets, accusations that Moscow has vehemently denied as Russian President Vladimir Putin previously stated: “There are no problems with the export of grain from Ukraine, and that his country does not interfere in this, and even demanded that Ukraine remove mines from ports so that ships loaded with grain could leave.”
Source: El Nashra