KYIV, May 20 – Ukraine has joined the signing of the Roadmap for Global Food Security, aimed at combating the global food crisis, which is increasingly aggravated due to the blocking of Ukrainian seaports by the Russian Federation, the country's key infrastructure for the export of agricultural crops, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food announced on Thursday.

The corresponding document was signed on May 18 following a meeting of the heads of relevant agricultural ministries at the UN site in New York.

On the ministry's website, it is specified that Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Mykola Solsky, in his address to the ministers of the agro-industrial complex of other countries, focused on the fact that the top priority for world food security was to stop Russia's war against Ukraine and unblock the export of Ukrainian agricultural products.

Due to the war in Ukraine, world prices for wheat and corn had already increased by more than 20%, which led to an increase in prices for basic food products in all countries of the world, Solsky said.

The war unleashed by Russia is especially critical for the countries of Asia and Africa, which import grain mainly from Ukraine and which citizens spend more than 40% of their total costs on food. (om/ez)