The coordinator of the US National Security Council for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, told CNN on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "absolutely using food as a weapon" in his invasion of Ukraine.

According to foreign media, the Telegraph reports, Kirby said that the administration of US President Joe Biden and partner countries are working to overcome an export blockade that is causing a global food shortage.

"I'm absolutely using food as a weapon - and we're working hard with the international community and the UN to find ways to be able to get that grain out there and into the market," Kirby told CNN.

Russia's blockade of exports, Kirby acknowledged, "will have a global impact."

"We will probably feel some of that here as well (the US), which is why we are working so hard to find alternative ways to extract some of that amount of wheat," he said.

Earlier this week, CNN reported that Russia's war in Ukraine could push up to 49 million people to starvation or similar conditions due to its devastating impact on global food supply and prices, according to UN estimates. of.

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