UN warns of "hurricane of hunger"

UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns of the threat of a “hurricane of hunger” due to the war in Ukraine. It has already disrupted supply chains and caused a sharp rise in prices – for food, fuel, transport.

In a tweet on Saturday, the NATO Secretary General notes that war could cause the collapse of the global food system and mass starvation in the world:

“The war in Ukraine is already disrupting supply chains and causing fuel, food and transport prices to skyrocket. We must do everything possible to prevent a hurricane of hunger and a collapse of the global food system.”

And the European Commission, meanwhile, warned of the possibility of famine in Ukraine itself. Janez Lenarcic, European Commissioner for Crisis Management and Humanitarian Aid, says in an interview with Welt am Sonntag:

“People in besieged cities are in apocalyptic conditions: no food, no water, no medical care and no way out.”

He believes that the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has already reached a critical point, but the situation could get even worse, writes bb.lv

Back in early March, our publication wrote that the war in Ukraine was literally destroys world markets. On Monday, March 7, gas and oil prices skyrocketed, and stock markets crashed. European stock markets opened on March 6 with a sharp drop in indices. The world economy is flying into the abyss because of the war in Ukraine. But most worrying is the sharp rise in food prices.

Food prices – from corn and wheat to meat and sugar – did not begin their rise today. Back in 2020, products began to rise in price due to the pandemic that broke out in the world, prices did not want to decrease even at a time when the coronavirus began to gradually recede. And now politics has unceremoniously intervened, forcing prices to rush up.

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