US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the West’s plan to build silos on Ukraine’s borders to facilitate wheat exports in the face of Russia’s blockade of Black Sea ports.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began on February 24, had a global impact, with inflationary pressures exacerbating the food crisis due to rising grain and fertilizer prices.
Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for high food prices in the US and warned that his plan to help bring more Ukrainian wheat to world markets “will take time”.
“I’m working closely with our European partners to bring 20 million tons of blocked grain to market in Ukraine to help lower food prices,” Biden said at a union meeting in Philadelphia. Said.
Putin’s war is not only about trying to destroy the culture of the Ukrainians, destroying their people, committing numerous war crimes, but also [faz com que] thousands of tons of grain are blocked,” said the president.
They can’t get out of the Black Sea because Sudan was bombed,” he said.
Biden said the alternative to exporting grain by land is complicated, as Ukrainian railways use a different gauge of gauge than neighboring countries.
To help deal with the situation, “We will build silos, temporary silos at the borders of Ukraine, including Poland, so we can transfer. [os grãos] to these silos, [depois] For vehicles in Europe, take it to the ocean and have it reach the whole world,” he detailed.
source: Noticias
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