From the New York Times, I'm Matina Steves-Gridnaf in for Sabrina, and this is the Daily.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine put the global food supply at risk, until the two countries

struck an unusual deal to keep food shipments flowing.

Last week, that deal fell apart.

Today, my colleague Mark Centura, on what the collapse of the deal means for the war,

and why its impact will be felt by tens of millions of people across the world.

It's Tuesday, July 25th.

Mark, tell me about this deal that fell apart last week, and why it's so significant.

Very simply, Matina, it's about feeding the world.

Between the two of them, Russia and Ukraine provide just a ton of the world's food supply.

Russia and Ukraine produce about 30% of the world's wheat and barley.

20% of corn comes from Russia in the Ukraine.

80% of sunflower oil, palm oil, which is usually...

Ukraine is one of the world's leading suppliers of grain, barley, rapeseed oil, sunflower seeds,

and a host of other products.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has upended the flow of food around the world.

But the moment Russia launched its full-scale invasion, it also instituted a naval blockade

on all of Ukraine's black sea ports.

They laid sea mines, trapping the ships that were meant to deliver millions of tons of grain to the global market.

Around 25 million tons of grain are stuck in the country.

Some of it is stored in silos like these in the port of Odessa waiting for export.

So all of that just went off the market overnight.

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