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Ukraine Sucks 'Oxygen Out of Room,' While Other Countries Lack Aid

© AP Photo / StringerIn this photo of Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 sacks of World Food Program, WFP, food is seen on a truck before being dropped off for storage in warehouses in the former Somali water agency that runs the biggest sell off of food aid in Mogadishu.
In this photo of Monday, Aug. 8, 2011 sacks of World Food Program, WFP, food is seen on a truck before being dropped off for storage in warehouses in the former Somali water agency that runs the biggest sell off of food aid in Mogadishu. - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.09.2023
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Ukraine has siphoned off all resources allocated for humanitarian efforts, although there are other hot spots across the globe that are in urgent need for assistance as well, Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) Cindy McCain stressed.
"Ukraine, for better or worse, has sucked the oxygen out of the room. And... we certainly understand the need to support Ukraine. But there's other hot spots in the world that are deeply and as much desperate as Ukraine is," McCain told an American news agency on Sunday.
McCain said that she had visited many countries where she had seen women with children fleeing from terrorist groups, which sometimes could be the only actors providing food for the local population. The official called it "an absolute national security issue."

"Right now, women can't work. They can't hold jobs of any kind. And in the case of the WFP, we've been feeding women, feeding women and children. And if we have to pull out, starvation and famine is going to be the result of this," McCain said commenting on the WFP being in danger of suspending operations in Afghanistan due to insufficient funding.

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