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With its vast, rich farmlands, Ukraine has been called the breadbasket of Europe. The country is so productive that it grows 40 percent of the wheat for the World Food Program, the biggest humanitarian organization on the planet and lifesaver for more than 100 million globally.Well, that was until Russia’s war on Ukraine put the country’s grain output in jeopardy.The Ukrainian flag flys on a pole in the middle of a land of wheat, in Kyiv, June 29, 2022. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)Under a safe-passage deal brokered by Turkey, about 720,000 tons of foodstuffs recently left Ukrainian ports. On August 20, that meager start earned praise from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, but he also called for more access to Russian food and fertilizer.The latter aren’t targeted by Western economic sanctions against Russia. Still, Guterres said Russian food and fertilizer were hobbled by a chilling effect" that had made shippers
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