“The military conflict in Ukraine has become a silent attack on the developing world.
The crisis could plunge up to 1.7 billion people, more than one-fifth of humanity, into poverty and hunger on a scale not seen in decades,” he said in a comment to Seznam Zpravy.
Earlier, US President Joe Biden said that the events around Ukraine could lead to food problems around the world.
The head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in an interview with The Guardian, allowed riots in poor countries due to rising food prices.
Parveen Ngala, a representative of the humanitarian organization Oxfam International, told RT that due to rising grain and oil prices, more than 21 million people in several African countries were on the verge of starvation.