![]() political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the Security Council. "The new wave of attacks on Ukrainian ports risks having far-reaching impacts on global food security," U.N. Moscow has described the attacks as revenge for a Ukrainian strike on Russia's bridge to Crimea. ![]() Russia pounded Ukrainian food export facilities for a fourth day in a row on Friday and practiced seizing ships in the Black Sea. Russia is negotiating exports of food to countries most in need following its exit from the deal, but has not yet signed any contracts, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said in Moscow on Friday. The impact of the grain deal in terms of provisions of Ukrainian grain to global markets is "essentially not very significant," he said. The World Food Programme also shipped 725,000 tonnes of grain to Afghanistan, Djibouti Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.īut Mikhail Khan, a macroeconomist who Russia asked to brief the Security Council, said the poorest countries had received just 3% of the grain shipped by Ukraine, in line with U.N. has long argued that the Black Sea deal was a commercial operation and it had benefited poor states by helping lower food prices more than 23% globally since March last year. ![]() Ukraine and Russia are both leading grain exporters. The Black Sea grain deal was brokered a year ago by the United Nations and Turkey to combat a global food crisis worsened by Russia's invasion. They pared some of those gains on Friday in part due to hopes Russia may resume talks on the deal. wheat futures in Chicago rose over 6% this week, and on Wednesday had their biggest daily gain since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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