Global leaders are condemning Moscow for suspending its participation in a U.N.-brokered grain deal — which has triggered a new wave of fears about world hunger and inflation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia was deliberately blockading food for the hungry.
U.N. Secretary General António Guterres announced he would be delaying his departure for an Arab League summit in Algiers in an attempt to help salvage the agreement. Guterres was"deeply concerned," a U.N. spokesperson said in a statement, and"continues to engage in intense contacts aiming at the end of the Russian suspension of its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
There had already been concerns about whether Russia would agree to continue the current agreement that expires on November 19. This invented story, says more about arguments going on inside the Russian Government than it does about the westIn the United States, President Biden took a moment from voting in Delaware, where he accused Moscow of weaponizing food.
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