"The impact of the war on food security, energy and finance is systemic and serious and is gaining momentum," said Antonia Guterres, presenting the second UN report on the consequences of the war in Ukraine.

According to the Voice of America, the UN Secretary-General added that "the war threatens to cause an unprecedented wave of hunger and poverty, leaving behind social and economic chaos."

According to Antonio Guterres, this year's food crisis is due to "lack of access" to basic foodstuffs, and next year "may be due to food shortages."

"There is only one way to stop the impending storm: the Russian invasion of Ukraine must be stopped," said the UN Secretary-General.

Antonia Guterres urged her colleagues to find a way to safely and securely export food of Ukrainian origin across the Black Sea and unimpeded access to the world market for Russian food and fertilizers.

The UN report notes that about 94 countries, home to about 1.6 billion people, "could be severely affected by at least one aspect of the crisis and unable to cope with it."

On June 7, Kyiv announced the conditions under which it is possible to resume supplies of Ukrainian grain to foreign markets.

“Effective security guarantees are needed to restore shipping.

Such guarantees should be provided by supplying Ukraine with appropriate weapons to protect the coast from threats from the sea and by joining the naval forces of third countries to patrol the relevant part of the Black Sea, "- said in a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

On June 3, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow would not interfere with the export of grain from Ukraine.

He suggested doing so through Russian-occupied ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk, ports controlled by Ukraine, and by rail through Romania, Poland and Belarus.

On June 6, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine was not ready to consider the issue of exporting its own grain through Belarus.

Russia and Ukraine are among the five largest grain producers in the world.

After the Russian army invaded Ukraine, food prices began to rise sharply.

Rising prices for grain and fuel affect the price of any food.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in May that the starvation of the war threatened 49 million people in 43 countries.

Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 am on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbas at the request of the DNR and LNR groups.

  On February 21, during a televised address to the Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified the decision.

• All the days of the war are shelling Ukrainian cities with missiles, flying aircraft.

  Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of the Lukashenko regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to Russian invaders.

• On February 27, the International Legion of Territorial Defense was established in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were encouraged to join.

  Belarusians also entered there.

  During the two and a half months of the war, six Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were killed at the front: Alexei "Tour" Skobla, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenov, Dmitry "Terror" Apanasovich, Dmitry "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Phoenix "Dubaila" .

• On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

  It included people who worked in the conflict in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Contrary to Putin's claims of attacks exclusively on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

  The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs against civilians.

• The number of refugees from Ukraine exceeded 5.5 million people.

• On April 1, Lithuania became the first EU country to completely abandon Russian gas.

  Latvia and Estonia followed suit.

  Germany has promised to completely suspend the use of Russian oil by the end of 2022.

• On April 2, after the liberation of the city of Bucha near Kiev, photojournalists published dozens of photos showing hundreds of the dead, victims of massacres committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in natural mass graves.

  The Russian occupation and Borodyanka brought great destruction.

  A number of rapes, including infants, are also known.

• In April, the number of missile attacks on Ukraine and air strikes from Belarus decreased, and Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

• Since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 26 media representatives have been killed - 19 journalists and 7 other workers.

• In May, the Ukrainians launched a counteroffensive in the Slobozhanshchina region, pushing the invaders to their borders.

• On May 9, the President of the United States signed the Land League Act.

  This law restores the program of the Second World War, which will accelerate the supply of weapons to Ukraine and increase such assistance.

• On the night of May 17, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar confirmed the start of an operation to rescue Ukrainian servicemen trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

  According to her, 53 seriously injured people were evacuated from there to the medical institution of occupied Novoazovsk.

  Another 211 people were taken to Alenivka along the humanitarian corridor.

  Russia's Defense Ministry says nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

  The International Committee of the Red Cross has officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

• Independent verification of information about hostilities provided by officials of various parties is not yet possible.