World meals disaster looms; Zelensky says harvest may very well be halved by Ukraine battle

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Ukraine's president mentioned on Sunday that the nation's harvest may very well be half its standard quantity this yr as a result of Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"Ukrainian harvest this yr is beneath the menace to be twice much less," suggesting half as a lot as standard, President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote in English on Twitter.

"Our primary objective — to forestall international meals disaster attributable to Russian invasion. Nonetheless grains discover a solution to be delivered alternatively," he added.

Ukraine, a key international provider of grains, has struggled to get its product to patrons resulting from a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports.

An settlement signed beneath the stewardship of the UN and Turkey on July 22 offers for secure passage for ships carrying grain out of three southern Ukrainian ports.

Talking in a kind of ports on Friday, Ukraine's infrastructure minister mentioned Ukraine was prepared to begin transport grain, and that he was hopeful the primary ships would go away by the top of the week.

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