US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink noted on November 27, 2022, on Twitter, that the USA allocated 20 million dollars to support the Ukrainian grain initiative “Grain from Ukraine”.
Source: US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink
“While Russia weaponizes food, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine take action to alleviate food insecurity caused by Russia’s war. $20 million in US support from USAID through the World Food Program is already shipping grain from Ukraine to those who need it most,” wrote the US Ambassador to Ukraine.
The Ambassador, together with the coordinator of sanctions policy at the US State Department, Jim O’Brien, and the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kubrakov, visited the port of Odesa in the south of Ukraine on November 27, 2022.
“Back in Odesa with State Dept Sanctions Coordinator Jim O’Brien and the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov to see how quickly Ukraine’s farmers, exporters, and ports work to move millions of tons of grain from Ukraine to the world through the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” said Bridget Brink.
Uaposition memo: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the “Grain from Ukraine” initiative during the G20 summit, and it was launched on November 26, 2022, on the Holodomor Memorial Day. The main idea of the initiative is to send ships with grain from Ukrainian ports to countries where the food crisis is most evident, in particular, to Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Kenya and Yemen.
See also: Ukrainian grain saved almost 100 million people from extreme poverty, – UN
