Russia’s justification for withdrawal from Ukraine export deal full of ‘falsehood and lies’, says Samantha Power in Odesa
The head of USAid, Samantha Power, has accused Vladimir Putin of making a “life and death decision” affecting millions of the world’s poorest people by withdrawing from the year-old UN-brokered deal that let Ukraine export grain through the Black Sea.
Speaking in the shadow of several giant grain silos in the key trading port of Odesa, the head of the US agency for international development pledged a further $250m to create and expand alternative routes for Ukrainian grain to leave the country, but admitted nothing would compensate for the loss of the Black Sea ports.
