Kuleba calls on Russia to stop playing 'hunger games'

Russia is using hunger as an instrument to blackmail the world, Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told journalists at the UN headquarters in New York, Report informs via foreign media.

"You have to know one number. Last year, when the Black Sea Grain Initiative was introduced, grain prices in the world dropped by 20%. So, the immediate outcome of not extension of the agreement will mean that prices for grain all across the globe will go up. And people in the most vulnerable regions of Asia and Africa will feel it. And this will be the result of Russia's actions," Kuleba said.

"Russia is using hunger as an instrument to blackmail the world, pursuing its own commercial interests. Stop playing hunger games," Kuleba said.