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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Ukraine’s harvest could be halved this year due to Russian invasion, warns Zelenskiy

A crater left by the Russian rocket in a wheat field in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine.
A crater left by the Russian rocket in a wheat field in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine. Photograph: Efrem Lukatsky/AP

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Ukraine’s harvest this year could be half its usual amount because of the Russian invasion, in comments likely to intensify fears of global hunger.

“Ukrainian harvest this year is under the threat to be twice less,” the Ukrainian president wrote on Twitter in English. His country’s main goal, Zelenskiy said, was to prevent a global food crisis caused by the Russian invasion.

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