Russia has not offered UN World Food Programme free grain

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference after visiting a joint coordination center overseeing the Ukrainian grain exports, in Istanbul, Turkey August 20, 2022. REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia has not offered the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) any free grain, WFP deputy chief Carl Skau said on Friday, nearly two weeks after Moscow quit a deal that allowed the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain.

Ukrainian grain is a primary U.N. food aid source.