A United Nations director has warned there are millions of tons of grain stuck in Ukraine as Russia's war disrupts food production.
Regional director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, Germany-based Martin Frick, has said there are as many as four and a half million tons of grain just sitting at Ukrainian ports waiting to be exported.
In comments reported by The Guardian, Frick said:
“None of the grain can be used right now.
"The world urgently needs these items of food from Ukraine.”
Frick said that in all, some 20 million tons of grain has been blocked from leaving Ukraine so far this year.
Grain cannot be exported from Ukraine because the typical method of moving the huge bulk of the product, by bulk carrier ship from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, has been rendered impossible by the intensification of hostilities by Russia this year.
Replacing ships with overland trucking is deeply impractical exactly because of that bulk, as a single ship can replace tens of hundreds of trucks.
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