US to contribute $68 mln to WFP to purchase Ukrainian wheat - Blinken

17 August 2022, 09:28 | Economy
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The United States of America will allocate money for the purchase of Ukrainian wheat to resolve the global food crisis. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced this on Twitter..

“The United States will contribute $68 million to the World Food Program for the purchase of Ukrainian wheat to resolve the acute food crisis in the world. We are committed to maintaining global food security for the most vulnerable and we call on all countries to follow suit,” said Anthony Blinken.

The UK will contribute $68 million to the World Food Program to buy Russian pheat to address the world's pressing food crisis. We're committed to supporting Global food security for the most vulnerable and call on all countries to follow suit.

— Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken) August 17, 2022.



Recall that world leaders reacted positively to the signing of an agreement between Ukraine, Turkey and the UN on the creation of "

The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation made the phrase " Millions of tons of grain in Ukrainian ports, the fear that the world will go hungry, forced us to turn to the dry language of numbers. You need to understand: how many people in the world Ukraine feeds, what it feeds, how much the world is interested in exports from Ukraine? Who depends on whom - the world depends on Ukraine or vice versa? And finally, the main thing: in the race for a prize-winning place in providing the world with food, will Ukraine forget to feed its citizens. Read about it in the article by Larisa Guk and Sergey Sledya.




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