UKRAINE'S President has slammed Russia for creating "an artificial famine" as Moscow halted the UN-brokered Black Sea grain initiative.
The agreement was brokered earlier in Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and allowed grain ships to export food products to countries across the globe via the Black Sea.
Speaking on Ukrainian television, hero leader Volodymyr Zelensky had this to say of Russia's decision to quit the agreement: “How can Russia be among the G-20 if it is deliberately working for starvation on several continents?”
He added that Putin was “doing everything to ensure that millions of Africans, millions of residents of the Middle East and South Asia find themselves in conditions of artificial famine or at least a severe price crisis.”
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