The World Food Program, the UN special envoy, today called for access to conflict zones and besieged cities in Ukraine to alleviate their population.
The Rome-based World Food Program, which has been operating in Ukraine since the start of the conflict, says it has provided food aid to 1.4 million people, according to a statement.
However, the UN agency was not allowed access to the conflict zones, mainly the port city of Mariupol in the south of the country, where another 100,000 people, according to the WFP, are surrounded by the Russian army and the city of Mykolaif, east of Odessa. which has been heavily bombed.
“We are asking the world to give us the access we need to reach the people of the besieged cities,” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said in a statement.
“It’s one thing when people suffer the ravages of war. And it’s another when they die of starvation,” he added at the end of a three-day visit to Ukraine.
WFP says it wants to deliver food to 2.3 million people in April, but needs secure access to do so.
In areas around Kiev where the Russian army withdrew, such as Butcha, Gostomel and Irpin, the service distributes potatoes, rice, cooking oil and canned meat to civilians.
More than seven million people have been displaced inside Ukraine and the normal supply chains that allow food to be delivered to the population “have broken in many areas”, the WFP also warned.
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