Entire world benefits from Ukraine’s ability to ship food under Grain Deal – US Department of State

The relevant statement was made by Principal Deputy Spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State Vedant Patel during a press briefing in Washington, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“The whole world has benefited from Ukraine’s ability to ship its food to the places where it’s needed to go,” Patel said, replying to the question of whether Russia had benefited from the Grain Deal.

According to Patel, the Grain Deal has taken steps to ensure that food and grain is not weaponized and that important food and grain and food products are able to get to the countries that need it.

“And it is another mechanism in which that we’ve prevented the Russian Federation from weaponizing food,” Patel added.

A reminder that, according to the data from the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry, Ukraine has exported more than 41.5 million tonnes of grain and leguminous crops over the past 10 months.

Photo: Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry