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Chef José Andrés, Princess of Asturias Award for Concord 2021, has announced that he has traveled with his NGO,

World Central Kitchen

, to Poland to see how he can help with the crisis opened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and has shown very hard on the Russian president: "Putin is a bully".

"It is so sad to see how the Democracies of the world look the other way!

Putin is a bully....and we are letting him slaughter the little brother....when we shut up and look the other way, do the bad guys always win!?", He has written in a message on his social networks.

In another previous message, he had announced that he has traveled to Poland with his NGO and when they have "their feet on the ground" they will see how they can "on what and how to help".

"But if they need us we will be there", she has insisted.

The 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Concord has been highly critical of the Russian intervention.

"I think all of us should go into Ukraine like Gandhi would

....and sit in front of the Russian forces and say: we love you. You don't have to do this. Putin is not Russia....We have no problem with the people Russian... Only with Putin... I wish we could! I wonder if we should do it," he insisted.

The Asturian chef founded the NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) in 2010 with his wife with the aim of

"using food to empower communities and strengthen economies"

and that during the

coronavirus

pandemic distributed more than three million of meals in Spain and more than 30 million in the United States.

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