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@RAHULGANDHI-pr9op Source, United Nations:
According to the UN's Joint Coordination Centre, 57% of the foodstuffs exported from Ukraine over the past year went to developing countries and 43% to developed countries.
Almost 33 million tonnes of grain were shipped from Ukraine under the deal, and world food prices declined by roughly 20% as a result, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
Russia cited Ukraine's failure to export more grain to poorer countries as one of the reasons it pulled out of the deal.
However, the UN says that Ukraine has supplied 725,000 tonnes of grain to the World Food Programme (WFP), which was sent as humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
The EU says that over the past year, Ukraine supplied the WFP with more than 80% of all its grain, compared to 50% before the war.
The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called Russia's cancellation of the grain deal an "act of cruelty".
It is estimated that more than 50 million people across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan are currently in need of food aid because of successive years of failed rains.
The grain deal expired on 17 July, 2023. Since then, Russia has launched a series of air attacks on Ukraine's ports, destroying an estimated 60,000 tonnes of grain.
The Russian defence ministry also said it would regard all cargo ships in the Black Sea bound for Ukraine as potential military targets.
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