COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine have provoked the highest inflation in 40 years

Since the beginning of the war, the coronavirus has not disappeared and hundreds of people continue to die from it.

Covid-19 Pandemic and Invasion Russia to Ukraine has become a key factor in the fact that overall inflation and the downturn in the international economy have reached their highest levels in 40 years. That's what President Joe Biden said. He noted that the ongoing war will continue to have a destructive effect on world markets, writes CNN.

“The invasion of Ukraine has raised gas and food prices around the world. The two main wheat granaries in the world are Ukraine and Russia … We saw the latest inflation data last month, with about 70% of inflation rising as a result of Putin's rise in prices due to the impact on gas and energy prices, “he said. >

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Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin and called him “the big cause of inflation.” p>

It will be recalled that earlier the US government decided to direct about a million barrels per day from its strategic oil reserves to the common market.

“The fact is that we are in a situation where the war in Ukraine will continue to affect on the world economy. This will affect the energy. This will affect food… A lot of people suffer. It makes a big difference, it makes a big difference, the cost of a dozen eggs, the cost of a gallon of gasoline, it matters, ”Biden commented on the decision.

Today we reported that since the beginning of the war, the coronavirus has not disappeared and hundreds of people continue to die from it. In the first days of the war, the government decided not to make medical statistics public. But according to LB, 255,411 new cases of covid were recorded during the war. 3,039 people have died.

See special topic: The IAEA has established direct links with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Of the 15 operating reactors at four NPPs, seven are currently connected to the grid, including two at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhya NPP. There are two ways to save Mariupol – Marine Commander Mariupol defenders have been defending the occupied city for almost two months and need immediate help. After the filtration camps, Ukrainians are forcibly sent to depressed regions of Russia – UN envoy Tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens are detained in camps on the Mangush-Nikolsko-Yalta line, several thousand more – in the filtration camp in the village of Bezymenna in Donetsk region. We do not hear a response from Russia to the proposal to exchange residents and defenders of Mariupol – Zelensky The situation in the city remains unchanged – as severe as possible. Ukraine received combat aircraft and spare parts for aircraft repairs The United States said that the United States did not transmit fighters directly.

Based on materials: ZN.ua

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