Approximately one in five Ukrainian families faces some degree of acute food insecurity, Matthew Hollingworth, director of the UN World Food Program in Ukraine, told a briefing for the UN Security Council on November 21, UNN reports.
Ukrainians are losing access to markets to buy food, and farmers report that they can no longer produce enough food, said Hollingworth.
Noting that WFP provides about 750,000 people with food baskets throughout the winter, he said: "The irony is not lost on us that in one of the world's great breadbaskets, hundreds of thousands of people live in close proximity to the fighting and are now dependent on humanitarian food aid, and there is no obvious way to deal with that."
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