ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Vice-President Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday said she was told that 37 per cent of Pakistan’s wheat came from Ukraine.

In a tweet, pointing towards Ukraine’s prosperity and importance amid Russia’s attack on it, Sherry Rehman said Ukraine used to be the Soviet Union’s granary and quite literally, the region’s breadbasket.

“If u were reading about the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, Ukraine used to always be called THE Ukraine, because it was part of the USSR,” she wrote.

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37% of what we import or 37% of what we consume?

— Muzzammil Aslam (@MuzzammilAslam3) February 24, 2022

It should be noted that Prime Minister Imran Khan had arrived in Moscow on February 23 to meet President Putin and discuss a range of issues, including economic cooperation. His visit had taken place hours after the US and a number of Western nations had slapped Russia with new sanctions for its military deployment into parts of eastern Ukraine.

Imran Khan, who had a summit meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin in the Kremlin, had said Pakistan had hoped diplomacy could avert a military conflict.

“The Prime Minister regretted the latest situation between Russia and Ukraine and said that Pakistan had hoped diplomacy could avert a military conflict”, a statement issued by the PM Media Office had said.​