Putin using 'hunger as a weapon' to starve Ukraine, president Zelenskyy says
dailystar.co.ukVladimir Putin of trying to starve Ukraine into submission after his initial military assault has stalled.Russian forces launched their invasion plans in late February and have been held back by brave Ukrainian forces, resulting in the Kremlin changing tactics.Speaking to a special meeting at Ireland’s parliament, he said: "This night, our territory was again hit by Russian missiles.
They are destroying things that are sustaining livelihoods to people."They also have blocked all of our sea ports, together with the vessels that had already agricultural cargoes for exports."Why are they doing this?
Because for them hunger is a weapon against us, ordinary people as an instrument of domination”.In the strategically-important city of Mariupol — where some 170,000 people are believed to be trapped by the Russian siege — food had virtually run out by March 13 with no aid convoys managing to get through since then.
The EU's agriculture commissioner, Janusz Wojciechowsk, says Russia’s tactics are reminiscent of the Holodomor, or “Terror Famine” when Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin deliberately caused a food crisis that is known to have killed at least four million Ukrainians in the mid-1930s. "The only interpretation is that [the Russians] want to create hunger and to use this method as a method of aggression," he said on March 23. "It is similar method that was used in 1930s by Soviet regime against Ukrainian people.”Ukraine is “a country that’s gone from breadbasket to breadlines,” said the World Food Programme’s Executive Director David Beasley told Politico.“Reaching the 40 million people inside Ukraine is our gravest concern.
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