45% of Ukraine population worry about accessing food: UN
Source: Anadolu Post (Turkey)
As Russia's war on Ukraine enters its second month, the UN World Food Program said Friday it estimates that 45% of the people in Ukraine are worried about finding enough food to eat.
“Food is one of the top three concerns, along with safety and fuel for transportation,” WFP spokesman Tomson Phiri said at a UN news conference. “The country’s food supply chain is broken. The existing systems that feed the tens of millions trapped inside Ukraine are falling apart: trucks and trains destroyed, airports bombed, bridges fallen, supermarkets emptied, and warehouses drained.”
He said the WFP is deeply concerned that families in embattled areas, especially Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, have even greater problems finding food. “Lack of access to conflict-hit areas and a lack of humanitarian partners on the ground are the biggest obstacles to providing life-saving assistance to families inside Ukraine,” Phiri noted.
“The encircled city of Mariupol is running out of its last reserves of food and water.”
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The UN food agency says that one out of five people in Ukraine are already short on food and are forced to use coping strategies like reducing the size and number of meals and eating less food.
Adults are not eating for days so children can have food.
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