UN warns that water and food reserves in Mariúpol are practically exhausted

Since two weeks, Mariupol is besieged by russian troops and soon you will find some of your greatest limits. The food and water reserves of the inhabitants of this city in the southeast of Ukraine they are running out and practically no humanitarian aid has been allowed to enter during this time, warned this Friday the UN World Food Program (WFP).

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“The only way to assist Mariupol is through humanitarian convoys, which have so far failed to enter”, said the emergency coordinator for Ukraine of the WFP Jakob Kern, in a videoconference from Krakow (Poland).

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Other partially fenced cities such as Kharkov, kyiv, Odessa or Sumy are receiving aid from the United Nations program, which has mobilized supplies to feed three million people for a month, the WFP official said at a press conference.

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The humanitarian organization has already managed to send 12,000 tons of this aid to different areas of Ukraine, and another 8,000 tons are waiting in nearby countries to be able to access that country.

Kern also expressed WFP’s concern about the impact that the war may have on global food security, given that Russia and Ukraine are major producers and exporters, especially of cereals, and the conflict between the two has pushed world food prices to record highs. .

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“The consequences of the conflict are spreading and will cause a collateral wave of hunger on the planet”, warned the head of the WFP.

Russia and Ukraine account for almost 30% of the world trade in wheat, a staple food grain for many countries and whose price has increased by 24% on the global market since the start of the war.

Ukraine is the world’s fourth largest producer of this cereal and is also among the top three in corn, barley and sunflower oil, according to the WFP.

Kern pointed out that the regions whose food security is most vulnerable to the current war are Africa and the Middle East, where a country like Lebanon, for example, imported 60% of its wheat from Ukraine.

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Source: Elcomercio

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