USAID chief visits Odesa, unveils $250m for Ukrainian farmers


  • World
  • Tuesday, 18 Jul 2023

FILE PHOTO: United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power attends a joint press conference with the Head of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine Serhii Kruk during a visit to Ukraine, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 17, 2023. REUTERS/Alina Smutko/File Photo

ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) - U.S. aid chief Samantha Power on Tuesday pledged $250 million in new funding to help Ukrainian farmers reeling from blocked Black Sea grain shipments since Russia's invasion last year.

Moscow on Monday pulled out of a U.N.-brokered deal allowing the safe passage of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea in a move U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called "a blow to people in need everywhere".

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