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Davos leaders have warned that Europe faces another huge migration wave driven by food shortages in North Africa as a result of Putin's barbaric war in Ukraine.
The Russian leader has been accused of deliberately weaponizing food supplies to cause global chaos, and has been targeting Ukrainian farms and production sites.
Poland's president Andrzej Duda said at the economic forum: 'If it turns out that there is hunger in North Africa... both Spain and the whole of southern Europe will have a huge migration problem.
A warehouse at a farm in southern Ukraine is destroyed after shelling amid huge food global food shortages
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, accused Russia of 'blackmail' over food supplies today
'Today we should focus on Ukraine being able to export its grain.'
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen echoed his comments, accusing Russia of 'blackmail'.
She said: 'In Russian-occupied Ukraine, the Kremlin's army is confiscating grain stocks and machinery (...) And Russian warships in the Black Sea are blockading Ukrainian ships full of wheat and sunflower seeds.'
Russia's invasion of Ukraine - and the West's attempt to isolate Moscow as punishment - have sent the price of grain, cooking oil, fertiliser and energy soaring.
The Kremlin said on Monday that is was the West that was responsible for the global food crisis by imposing the severest sanctions in modern history on Russia over the war in Ukraine.
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