Europe needs talks with Russia over Ukrainian food exports: Von der Leyen

Europe needs to seek talks with Russia over the possibility of reviving the exports of wheat and other food supplies out of Ukraine in order to prevent a global food crisis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says.

“It can’t be in Russia’s interests that because of Russia people are dying of hunger in the world,” von der Leyen told the Reuters news agency at the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathering in Davos.

“Therefore I think we should first of all look at the dialogue with Russia, whether there is not an agreement that this wheat gets out of Ukraine.”