Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi held a summit with allied countries in Kyiv on Saturday to launch a plan to export $150 million worth of grain to countries most vulnerable to famine and drought, Reuters reported.

The “Grain from Ukraine” program demonstrated that global food security is “not empty words” for Kyiv, he noted.

The Kremlin claims that the food exported from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine according to the UN-brokered plan did not reach the most vulnerable countries.

Zelensky noted that Kyiv has attracted 150 million dollars from more than 20 countries and the European Union to export grain to such countries as Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.

“We plan to send at least 60 ships from Ukrainian ports to countries that are most at risk of famine and drought,” Zelenskyy said at the summit.

The prime ministers of Belgium, Poland and Lithuania and the president of Hungary took part in the summit. The presidents of Germany and France and the head of the European Commission made video speeches.

A joint statement released after the summit said that since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the world has received 10 million tons less agricultural produce than during the same period in 2021.

“This means that the food security of millions of people around the world is under serious threat,” the joint statement said, blaming Russia’s blockade of Ukrainian ports at the beginning of the conflict.

“We are convinced that together we will overcome the serious humanitarian and economic consequences of the global food crisis caused by Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine,” the message reads.

The meeting is timed to commemorate the Holodomor, the Stalinist famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the winter of 1932-33.

In a video message, French President Emmanuel Macron announced a contribution of 6 million euros for the transportation and distribution through the World Food Program of Ukrainian grain to Yemen and Sudan.

“The most vulnerable countries should not pay the price of a war they did not want,” he said.