“In these hours, some merchant ships are being released to collect some of Ukraine’s grain from the country’s ports.” This was stated by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on the second day of nutrition education in Coldiretti.
there Russia says it is ready for dialogue with all international partners about grain supplies from Ukraine, said Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko in response to a Western appeal in Moscow. Russia, Rudenko said, is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for ships transporting food from Ukraine.
However Sanctions on Russia should be lifted to avoid a global food crisis, stated Rudenko. In addition, the deputy minister added, a possible western escort of ships transporting grain from Ukraine would seriously aggravate the situation in the Black Sea.
“Anything that comes out of the Kremlin today has very little credibility, any announcement it cannot be considered credible if it is not followed by concrete actionsaid one of the ANSA European diplomatic source Commentary on the words of Rudenko. “It is Russia’s illegal actions that have caused this crisis, both energy and food,” he stresses.
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As part of the various EU sanctions packages against Russia (ANSA)
“The war in Ukraine may trigger more wars over what may happen in the markets from a food and energy perspective.” This was announced by the foreign minister Luigi di Maio speaks today at the second Coldiretti Food Education Festival. Post-pandemic food insecurity has already hit another 100 million people around the world, and on top of that, Di Maio stressed, comes the conflict in Ukraine with the lockdown on grain exports. “In some African countries – he added – diet strictly depends on bread, and diet instability causes political instability.”
The prices of many commodities, such as wheat, will continue to rise as a result of the war in Ukraine, writes the British secret service in its update on the situation in the country, as reported by the Ministry of Defense on Twitter today. The fighting has already weighed on global grain prices, albeit indirectly, the report said. This trend will continue as the threat of the Russian naval blockade continues to impede the entry of cargo ships into Ukrainian ports. With the resulting increasing impact on prices due to the shortage of supply.
With the green light for foreign cargo ships to depart, warehouses are freeing up space for the new grain crop arriving in a few weeks at an estimated 19.4 million tonnes, some 40% less than the 33 million tonnes expected this season; a number that still places Ukraine in sixth place among world wheat exporters. That’s what Coldiretti says in reference to the humanitarian corridor opened by Russia to allow foreign ships to leave the port of Mariupol, and the first freight train with a load of grain from Ukraine that arrived in Lithuania via Poland, opening up the possibility the rail transport of grain.
An important change also for Italy, which buys from Ukraine 2.7% of soft wheat imports for a total of 122 million kilos, but also 15% of corn for 785 million kilos. Russia and Ukraine together account for about 28% of global grain shipments, which are blocked in part due to the closure of Black Sea ports, preventing exports with a dramatic impact on 36 countries that depend on Moscow and Kyiv for more than half of their imports are wheat, such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to the FAO.