The president of United States, Joe Bidenrevealed on Tuesday a Western plan to build silos on the borders of Ukraine to facilitate the export of wheatbefore the Russian blockade of the Black Sea ports.
The Russian invasion of Ukrainelaunched on February 24, had a global impact with inflationary pressures aggravating the food crisis due to rising prices of cereals and fertilizers.
Biden blamed the Russian president, Vladimir Putinof high food prices in the United States and warned that the plan to help get more Ukrainian wheat to world markets was “taking time.”
“I am working closely with our European partners to put 20 million tons of grain on the market blocked in Ukraine to help lower food prices,” Biden told a union convention in Philadelphia.
“What Putin’s war has done is not just try to wipe out the culture of the Ukrainians, decimate their people, commit countless war crimesbut has also (… caused) thousands of tons of grain to remain blocked,” the president said.
They cannot go out through the Black Sea because they are bombed out of the water,” he added.
Biden said the road export alternative is complicated because Ukrainian railways use a different gauge than neighboring countries.
To help overcome the situation, “we are going to build silos, temporary silos, on the borders of Ukraine, even in Poland, so that we can transfer (the grains…) to those silos, to vehicles in Europe, and take it to the ocean. to make it reach the whole world”, he detailed.
