UN Security Council calculates how much Ukrainian grain Russia has destroyed

Russia said that it was withdrawing from the "grain deal" and started actively shelling Ukraine's port infrastructure, including grain storage facilities. The UN has carried out its own calculation of the losses of the world food market due to the Russian attacks. Experts have established that these days the grain destroyed by the Russian Federation would be enough to feed 270,000 people for a year. In particular, this was stated by the permanent representative of the UK in the UN Barbara Woodward during a meeting of the Security Council of the Organisation on Russia's disruption of the "grain agreement", Sky News writes.

She stressed that an estimated 24m tonnes of Ukrainian food had been destroyed.

This has already raised prices, and it has had an immediate impact on the poorest most hungry people in the world," she pointed out.

Woodward noted that there is no logical justification for the Russians' actions.

There is no justification for these punitive actions. Ukraine wants nothing more than to make its food available to the world. Russia's latest demands are what it takes to hold hostage those who are starving around the world. Food is not a weapon," she said.

Recall, Russia said that the Black Sea has become a zone of "heightened military danger", so all ships will be considered as carrying military cargo.