Austria Condemns Hunger as a Weapon

PeopleOther ♦ Published: November 28, 2022; 23:44 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria condemns Russia's tactic of using world hunger as a weapon. Austria pledges € 3.8 million to the initiative "Grain from Ukraine" for the delivery of Ukrainian grain to needy people in Ethiopia and Sudan.

Austria is providing a further 3.8 million euros to enable the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to supply Ukrainian cereals to the world's poorest people. / Picture: © Thomas Topf / © Parlamentsdirektion

"Even after 276 days, Russia does not desist from the cynical use of hunger and energy as a weapon against the Ukrainian people and the world in its war of aggression against Ukraine," says Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative, which takes place in a hybrid format in Kyiv today to mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor.

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