European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday that Russia was "causing a global food crisis" after its decision to pull out of the Black Sea grain export deal.
"What we already know is that this measure will create a huge and huge food crisis in the world," Borrell told reporters before a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
Borrell also accused Russia of deliberately attacking grain storage facilities in the city of Odessa, in southern Ukraine, which he said would "further exacerbate the food crisis".
The Russian Defense Ministry has threatened that it will consider all ships sailing to Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea as "potential military carriers" following the end of the grain deal.
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