Ukraine has already sent 44 ships with more than a million tons of grain to 15 countries around the world and has 70 requests to load as many ships with food, as detailed on Friday night by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
In his usual late-night speech, Zelensky said that the goal is to reach the volume of three million tons of export by sea per month, since it is “extremely important for Africa, Asia and Europe.”
“Today we can draw the first conclusions about rescuing many countries and peoples from the food crisis, which Russia wanted so badly to exacerbate into a real famine,” he said.
In the balance on food shipments, the Ukrainian president has assured that grain exports have been operating for almost a month, and during this time “the first million tons of food products” were exported since the war began, in concrete from its three seaports in Chornomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhne.
“This is a victory,” Zelensky said. And in practice, he added, it means “that Ukrainian grain and the very fact that Ukraine’s supply route to the world food market has worked, make it possible to avoid market chaos, reduce the severity of the food crisis and avoid a catastrophic shortage.”Ukraine was, is and will be one of the guarantors of world food security”, he said in his speech.
The Ukrainian leader has highlighted the importance of this commercial activity as it “supports Ukraine’s status as an international subject”, provides “jobs” for its citizens and income “for Ukrainian companies, for our budget and provides funds to plant the next year”.
