ITV News published this video item, entitled “Fears of world food crisis as Russia says it is pulling out of key Ukraine grain deal | ITV News” – below is their description.
Russia is pulling out of a vital UN-brokered deal that had seen more than nine million tonnes of grain exported from Ukraine and had brought down global food prices.
The country’s defence ministry cited an alleged Ukrainian drone attack against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet ships off the coast of occupied Crimea on Saturday morning as the reason for the move – though Ukraine has denied the attack.
The Russian declaration came one day after UN chief Antonio Guterres urged Russia and Ukraine to renew the deal, with the wheat fields of Ukraine feeding 400 million people around the world.
Ukraine also provides roughly 10% of the world’s wheat exports, and more than half of its sunflower oil.
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