The UN said that the conflict in Ukraine threatens to starve 15 million people

Tortillas for sale. File photoMOSCOW, June 2The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) predicts that due to the conflict in Ukraine, about 13-15 million people in the world may be on the verge of starvation, Oleg Kobyakov, director of the FAO office for relations with Russia, told RIA Novosti. In 2019, the last pre-pandemic year, there were 690 million hungry people in the world.The following year, this figure reached 811 million. That is, 120 million crossed the «red line» from the state of food security to the state of hunger.This year, in our opinion According to the forecast, only the situation in connection with military operations in Ukraine will bring another 13-15 million people beyond this line,» Kobyakov said. but, of course, he exacerbated the situation, especially in countries that were either in the zone of famine, or were balancing on this fragile border and were just beginning to emerge from the crisis or, on the contrary, tried to stay on the edge of the abyss, where they found themselves due to various reasons: armed conflicts, pandemics, economic upheavals, natural and natural disasters,” Kobyakov explained. communities — to consolidate and stop the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine for food security, because the elimination of other underlying causes of world hunger will require much more effort, money and time. » />The head of JP Morgan warned of an impending economic «hurricane»Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.