Reuters. U.S. aid chief Samantha Power pledged $250 million in new funding on Tuesday (July 18) to help Ukrainian farmers reeling from blocked Black Sea grain shipments since Russia's invasion last year.
Moscow on Monday (July 17) 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".
Speaking in the port of Odesa with Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, Power said the investment, via a USAID initiative focused on Ukraine's agriculture sector, would aim to boost agricultural infrastructure and expand other export routes.
