UN Food Chief: Mariupol Is Being “Starved To Death”

The Associated Press reports:

The head of the U.N. World Food Program said people are being “starved to death” in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, and he predicted the country’s humanitarian crisis is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault in the coming weeks.

WFP executive director David Beasley also warned in an interview Thursday with The Associated Press in Kyiv that Russia’s invasion of grain-exporting Ukraine risks destabilizing nations far from its shores and could trigger waves of migrants seeking better lives elsewhere.

Russian forces that control access to the city have not allowed in aid, even though the WFP has demanded access. “We will not give up on the people of Mariupol and other people that we cannot reach. But it’s a devastating situation: the people being starved to death,” he said.

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Beasley predicted that the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is likely to worsen as Russia intensifies its assault.

“It’s not just going to be the next few days — but the next few weeks and few months could even get more complicated than it is now,” he said.https://t.co/fj221dFZB8

— The Associated Press (@AP) April 14, 2022