Ukraine is doing all it can to prevent a global food crisis
russia has first disrupted the Black Sea Grain Initiative and is now destroying Ukrainian ports from which grain has been shipped to dozens of countries around the world. Ukraine is doing all it can to prevent this. This was underlined by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a Government session on 21 July.
“All week long russia has been carrying out massive terrorist missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. First of all, the enemy is attacking the South. Odesa and Mykolaiv regions. Civilian facilities, residential buildings, infrastructure are being targeted,” the Prime Minister noted.
According to the Head of Government, Ukraine has successfully completed two sowing campaigns under extremely difficult conditions. Ukrainian farmers are even working on mined fields and are already harvesting the second crop: “We are building new logistics on the western border. We have tripled the turnover of goods on the Danube. We are opening new border crossings and increasing the capacity of existing ones.”
The Prime Minister noted that at such a difficult time, Ukraine had unfortunately heard statements from its Polish allies that the EU’s borders would be closed to Ukrainian grain.
“I would like to address our Polish brothers. Your support during the russian aggression is extraordinary. We will never forget it and will always be grateful. You are always the first to support Ukraine. You understand better than anyone else that Ukraine is now a shield keeping the russian barbarians out of Europe. That is why we urge you not to fall for slogans and populism,” Denys Shmyhal said.
The Head of Government called on the Poles to lend a helping hand to Ukraine in the situation where russia has disrupted the grain deal in the face of a possible global food crisis, and thus drive russia into a dead end: “We offer cooperation and expert dialogue instead of slogans and short-term political expediency.”