Ukraine is one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of agricultural products.
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Ukraine’s president on Sunday said the country’s harvest could be half of what it normally is this year due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote in English on Twitter: “Ukraine’s harvest this year is threatened to be less than twice.”
“Our main goal – to prevent a global food crisis caused by Russian aggression. Grains still find an alternative way of being distributed,” he added.
Ukraine, a key global grain supplier, has struggled to get its produce into the hands of buyers due to the Russian navy blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
An agreement signed under the administration of the United Nations and Turkey on July 22 provides for the safe passage of grain ships out of three southern Ukrainian ports.
Speaking at one of those ports on Friday, Ukraine’s infrastructure minister said Ukraine was ready to start shipping grain and he expected the first ships to leave by the end of the week.
