UN food agency seeks safe access in Ukraine war zones

The United Nation appealed Friday for get access to to Ukrainians trapped in conflict zones, saying the ones besieged had been ravenous to demise.

The Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), which has been running in Ukraine since the start of the battle, says it has added meals assistance to 1.4 million people.

It has not been allowed access to war zones, inclusive of the southern port town of Mariupol whose populace of 100,000 is surrounded by Russia’s navy, and the closely-shelled Mykolaiv east of Odessa.

“We’re calling on everyone to give us the access we need to reach the people in besieged cities,” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said in a statement.

“It’s one thing when people are suffering from the devastation of war. It’s another thing when they’re being starved to death.”

WFP said it was preparing to deliver food to 2.3 million people this month, but needed safe access.

In areas across the capital Kyiv in which the Russian army has retreated, including Bucha and Irpin, the employer is distributing pasta, rice, cooking oil and canned meat to civilians.

More than 7 million people are displaced inside Ukraine with the normal supply chains to deliver food to the populace “broken down in lots of regions,” WFP said.