Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said on Saturday that Russian aggression is “destroying the food market” and accused Moscow of blocking the passage of more than 100 food vessels for “weeks”, according to CNN.

Zelenskyy stated this in a speech before the participants of the Conference of Ministers of Agriculture in Berlin.

“Right now, as we speak in this forum, more than 100 ships with food are waiting at the Bosphorus (Turkey Strait). Why Because they need to be checked, and Russian representatives are blocking this check,” Zelenskyy said, speaking at the conference in English. “Ships are delayed for weeks.”

“This means higher prices for Europe. For Asia, this means a growing threat of social instability. In Africa, for countries like Ethiopia or Sudan, this means empty tables for thousands and thousands of families,” Zelenskyy continued.

He said that “the world needs more determination and more cooperation to stop the aggression that destroys the food market” and “to stop any state that blockades the sea and disrupts food supply chains to bring to justice any tyrant , which tries to make hunger a tool.” political influence”.

The President of Ukraine, before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, said that Ukraine “exports six and a half million tons of food every month.”

But now supplies have been cut in half due to, he said, Russian aggression and actions to block food exports from Ukraine.