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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Lizzy Davies

Aid agencies race to get food supplies to Ukrainian cities at risk of siege

People queue to receive hot food in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, 7 March, 2022.
People queue to receive hot food in an improvised bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, 7 March, 2022. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

Aid workers are racing to deliver emergency food supplies to Ukrainian cities at risk of “medieval tactics of besiegement”, a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

In a dramatic turnaround for a country long hailed as the “breadbasket of the world”, the UN’s emergency food agency is now trying to get stocks into warehouses in Ukrainian cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro before it is too late, said Jakob Kern.

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