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Still, Beasley said, 'there is a real and dangerous risk of multiple famines this year.' Turkey in July brokered an agreement that enabled Ukrainian grain to be exported from three Black Sea ports that had been blocked by Russia, and efforts are continuing to get more produce out to markets, as well as Russian fertilizer, the export of which is hampered by Western sanctions. The war in Ukraine has sent food inflation soaring, as Russian warships have largely blocked Ukraine's vital Black Sea ports, through which huge proportions of the world's grain and other staple food products are shipped.īeasley said that the surge in costs of food, fuel and fertilizer has brought 70 million people closer to starvation. 'What was a wave of hunger is now a tsunami of hunger,' WFP chief David Beasley said, noting that the number of people suffering from acute food insecurity had doubled since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing nearly seven months of war have thrown millions of people around the world into food insecurity and brought many of those closer to starvation, the head of the U.N.'s World Food Program warned. NASAMS 'is a NATO system, so for us it's important to start to help the Ukrainians transition their air defense systems from what is a now a Soviet-type system, to introduce some of this modern technology,' a senior Defense Department official said in July. It also represents a major step for Ukraine's military toward a longer-term cooperation with Western allies. The NASAMS is one of the most highly anticipated weapons systems that has been committed to the Ukrainian military thus far in the war.ĭeveloped by Raytheon and Norway's Kongsberg, it is orders of magnitude more advanced than the Russian-made air defense systems that Ukraine has used in the past, notably the S-300. 'These defensive systems will further contribute to protecting Ukrainians from enemy air threats, including aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and missiles.' 'We're tracking that two NASAMS are expected to be delivered within the next two months or so,' said Pentagon press secretary Brigadier Gen.

The Pentagon updated its timeline for the transfer of two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) to Ukraine, saying they would arrive within two months, or by mid-November.

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