USAID calls for 'public condemnation' of Russia's withdrawal from grain deal

The head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Samantha Power, tells a press conference in Kyiv that "countries and leaders near and far should publicly condemn" Russia's decision to withdraw from the grain export deal negotiated last summer.

"The aim was to transport food from Ukraine to the rest of the world", where "economies are dependent on Ukrainian wheat imports", she says.