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Ukraine and the United Nations have warned of a huge impact on global food security following the Kakhovka dam burst.

The UN's aid chief, Martin Griffiths, told the 大象传媒 there was massive concern about the environmental destruction of what he called the world's breadbasket. He said food prices were bound to rise.

Ukraine鈥檚 Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Taras Vysotskyi, said the main crops affected would be soybeans, corn, sunflowers and wheat, and this would have an impact on vulnerable countries, in particular in North and Sub-Saharan Africa. He told Newsday: 鈥淭his is a terrible situation鈥�before the war, Ukrainian products were enough to feed around 400 million people around the world鈥�now we can鈥檛 do the same.鈥�

(Picture: Shows an area flooded by rising water levels following damage sustained to the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in Chornobaivka, Kherson region. Credit: Aleksey Filippov / AFP via Getty Images.)