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• Guterres said that war could spiral into a global hunger crisis
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday said that the Russia-Ukraine war is “absurd” and “unwinnable” and warned that the conflict is “going nowhere, fast.”
Guterres said that it was time to end “this absurd war” by addressing the reporters in New York.
“Even if Mariupol falls, Ukraine cannot be conquered city by city, street by street, house by house. This war is unwinnable. Sooner or later, it will have to move from the battlefield to the peace table,” he said.
The UN Secretary-General voiced the concerns surrounding the imminent global hunger crisis that could emanate from this war. He warned the reverberations of war were being felt globally “with skyrocketing food, energy and fertilizer prices threatening to spiral into a global hunger crisis”.
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Guterres said that the Ukrainian people are enduring a living hell with nearly 10 million Ukrainians fleeing from their homes.
On a very emotional note, he questioned the purpose of the war, which would only end in losses. “How many more people will have to die in Ukraine, and how many people around the world will have to face a hunger for this to stop? Continuing the war in Ukraine is morally unacceptable, politically indefensible, and militarily nonsensical,” he said.
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