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‘If you have any heart at all.’ UN official warns Putin millions will die if Ukraine’s ports remain blocked
New York (CNN Business)David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, is pleading with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reopen Ukraine's Black Sea ports before global calamity strikes.
“Millions of people around the world will die because these ports are being blocked,” Beasley told CNN during a conference on Thursday.
- Matt Egan, CNN Business
Asked what he would say directly to Putin, the UN official said:
“If you have any heart at all for the rest of the world, regardless of how you feel about Ukraine, you need to open up those ports.”
Vital shipments of agriculture from Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the world, are stuck in the war-torn nation because the…