KYIV, April 1 – The European Commission intends to create special trading routes between Poland and Ukraine to make sure food products and live animals can be moved as easily as possible in both directions, since most of its own vast food exports from Black Sea ports have been cut off by Russian attacks.

The need to open safe corridors for supplies from Ukraine was announced by European Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski, according to the Politico website.

"The European Commission is ready to organize such green corridors... I discussed this with the Polish prime minister [Mateusz Morawiecki] and everything will be done to support Ukraine," Wojciechowski is quoted as saying.

The green corridor would enable Ukraine to export food via the Baltic Sea. This will help avoid a global food security crisis caused by the "falling out" of Ukrainian agricultural products from the world market due to the military invasion of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation.

"Explicit mention of establishing green corridors was absent from the Commission's official food response to the conflict, published last Wednesday [March 24]. Ukraine's former Agriculture Minister Roman Leschenko had asked the EU to set up green corridors during an appearance at the European Parliament a day earlier. He later resigned, citing health reasons," Politico said in a statement. (om/ez)