Russian efforts to exacerbate the food crisis is aggression against every person on earth - the appeal of the President of Ukraine
We also work to ensure that the results are required at sea. These weeks the situation around the export grain initiative is becoming more and more intense. The enemy does everything to slow our food exports. I believe that these actions are absolutely consciously igniting the food crisis so that it becomes as acute as it was in the first half of this year. Today, more than 150 vessels are in line to fulfill the contractual obligations to supply our agricultural products.
This is an artificial queue. It emerged only because Russia consciously delays the passage of ships. Each day of food vessels in the queue means an increase in social and political tension in countries consuming our agro -products. Here are just some states that delay the export of food from the fault of Russia: Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia. Our partners - the UN, Turkey and others - are fully informed about this situation.
During the work of our grain initiative, through Russian braking, we have not exported about 3 million tons of food. And this is an annual consumption for 10 million people. Russia does everything to that at least a hundred thousand of these people become forced migrants who will seek asylum in the same Turkey or EU countries or die from hunger. And we and our partners have to do everything to keep the grain initiative not only preserved, but also to work 100% capacity.
The right to food and life without hunger is fundamental rights for absolutely every person on earth. And so Russian efforts to exacerbate the food crisis is also aggression against every person on Earth. He held a meeting with representatives of the US Congress who arrived in Kiev. He thanked them for the unchanging two -party support and for the extremely powerful things that America does to help us protect freedom. They discussed the key issue today - air and missile defense.
They also talked about financial support, about our political interaction, about which new anti -European and anti -democratic steps should be expected from Russia and its accomplices in terror. Iranian supply to Russian terror has touched. Today, this terror is against our infrastructure, against our energy will be discussed by the UN Security Council. The meeting is convened at the request of our country, will take place at 22:00.
He met with the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He thanked for the help and informed about what new needs we have arisen through Russian terror. The EBRD already provides Ukrenergo's financial support, has all the data on what steps we need to restore energy and social objects, to build housing for Ukrainians. They agreed on the eve of the conference on the reconstruction of our country, which should take place in Germany on October 25.
Today, during the day, air alarm was announced in most regions of Ukraine. There are new confinements of drones and hostile aviation. In the east and south of Ukraine, active fighting is ongoing. Our armed forces keep the initiative. I want to celebrate the soldiers of the 25th separate airborne brigade today and thoughtful actions in the destruction of the enemy in the eastern direction.
I thank the soldiers of the 60th separate infantry brigade, whose units demonstrate good results in Kherson region. Only from the beginning of October, the fighters of the sixties "Zabrofeyl" have more than 30 units of Russian armored vehicles, a thousand tanks for tanks and three guns "Hyacinth". All these weapons will surely help the liberation of our land. I also thank the soldiers of the 59th Separate Motor infantry brigade named after Jacob Gandziuk.
This week, the boys showed excellent results in the destruction of hostile equipment and ammunition. I also thank the soldiers of the 35th Separate Marine Corps named after the counter-Admiral Michael Ostrogradsky for the stability in the defense of the employed borders. And one more. Today, the government has made an important decision concerning tens of thousands of Ukrainian students.
Those whose home in the temporarily occupied territory or in districts near the front, as well as children of dead defenders and defenders of Ukraine, members of families of combatants. All of them will be translated from a contract form of budgetary education at our universities and colleges. The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine should be published on this decision.