DISINFO: Only 3% of Ukrainian grains end up in poor countries; the rest go to EU countries
SUMMARY
The West was not fair enough regarding the grain deal, since most of the shipments did not go to the poorest countries as was announced. Only 3% of grain deal exports from Ukrainian ports went to the poorest countries, according to the United Nations Program, while the rest of the exports went to European Union countries.
RESPONSE
A claim provided with no evidence, trying to deflect responsibility for the global food shortage from Russia by claiming that most of Ukraine's grain ships are sent to rich European countries. The claim was neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.
As of 7 September 2022, the UN Joint Coordination Centre, which is run by the UN, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine, said that 47% of Ukraine's grain was sent to Asia, and 36% has been sent to Europe and 17% to Africa, with 10% of that amount to Egypt alone.
Moreover, more shipments are expected to start arriving in famine-stricken parts of Africa and the Middle East under the leadership of UN World Food Programme (WFP).
President Zelenskyy, responding to claims that Ukrainian grains mostly go to rich European countries, asserted that the geographical reach of Ukrainian agricultural exports is very broad.
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