France will continue to act harmoniously within the EU, says Macron.
Two days after talks with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron announced an increase in total French support for Ukraine to $ 2 billion.
On May 3, Putin through Macron threatened to starve the world if countries continued to impose sanctions on Russia for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Today, I would like to announce that France will increase its total support to $ 2 billion to meet the needs voiced by the President of Ukraine. France will continue to act in concert within the EU, with our European partners, as well as the G7 and international financial institutions to collectively meet the needs of the Ukrainian state before the catastrophe of this war, “Macron said at the International High-Level Donor Conference for Ukraine in Warsaw on Thursday.
“Apart from humanitarian aid, we have in fact provided direct budget assistance to the Ukrainian government and continue to support and guarantee investment and exports to Ukraine. They are needed to rebuild the Ukrainian economy at a critical time and increase its resilience in the long run,” Macron said. >
It will be recalled that Russia began blocking Ukrainian ports on the eve of the invasion , under the pretext of conducting military exercises. >
More about what the Kremlin's desire to close the Black and Azov Seas could lead to, ZN.UA wrote a week before Russia's attack. Read about it in the article by Volodymyr Kravchenko “ Not by war, but by blockade?” .
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According to the UN, the war in Ukraine was a factor influencing the global food crisis. Russia's war against Ukraine could lead to famine and poverty for much of humanity on a scale never seen before, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
More than 275 million people worldwide have faced acute food shortages due to the full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine. This was stated by US Treasury Secretary Janet Ellen. According to her, the Russian invasion has led to a sharp rise in commodity prices, increasing global inflationary pressures and threatening energy and food security, trade flows and the external balance in many countries.
One of the reasons – blockade by the occupiers of the supply of Ukrainian grain to other countries . Russian troops have bombed three ships in the Black Sea and blocked another 94 ships with food in Ukrainian ports , preventing them from entering the Mediterranean.
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About 4.5 million tons remain blocked in Ukrainian ports grains. Grain cannot be exported because most sea routes are closed due to a large-scale war waged by Russia.
The closure of Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea could provoke a global food disaster, which in turn will lead to hunger, mass migration and political instability in the world. This was warned by the Executive Director of the UN World Food Program David Beasley.
The situation affects primarily the Middle East, Africa and some parts of Asia, where millions of people are on the brink of starvation and cheap bread is becoming one of the few ways to survive.
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Prior to the start of the new Russian armed aggression on February 24, Kyiv was one of the largest exporters of wheat.
March 27 Ukraine began to supply grain abroad by rail .
See special topic : Russians continue to lie about humanitarian corridors and plunder agricultural enterprises: summary of the General Staff In the Kharkiv region, the racists are building up the medical care system of the troops, using a network of civilian hospitals in the temporarily occupied territories. An international donors' conference raised $ 6.5 billion to help Ukraine In particular, Poland will provide 100 million euros to Ukraine and the EU 200 million euros. It will be possible to lift sanctions against Russia only in agreement with Ukraine – Scholz Almost half of the population of Russia already saves on absolutely everything, even began to give up alcohol. Putin wants to create an analogue of “Wikipedia” in Russia He does not like the “quality of information” in the encyclopedia, which tells the truth about the attack on Ukraine. America has launched an accelerated retraining of the Ukrainian military in Germany for new artillery systems, drones and radars – The Hill Since 2015, defenders from Ukraine have participated in more than ten major military exercises with the United States in Germany.
