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UN food chief: Ukraine war’s food crisis is worst since WWII

An elderly woman has a meal in her apartment, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 13, 2022. The woman wears her coat and hat to keep warm as the municipal heating in the apartment block stopped after shelling. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko) People cook meal in a yard in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko) FILE - Workers clean the floor as sacks of food earmarked for the Tigray and Afar regions sits in piles in a warehouse of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Semera, the regional capital for the Afar region, in Ethiopia on Feb. 21, 2022. The aid agency Oxfam International warned Tuesday, March 22, 2022 that widespread hunger across East Africa could become "a catastrophe" without an injection of funds to the region's most vulnerable communities. (AP Photo, File) People queue for bread inside a bakery in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Soaring energy and food prices triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine are pushing some Middle Eastern countries to the brink. Economically devastated by years of grinding civil wars, endemic corruption and the pandemic, residents are now gripped by a new worry. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Women waits to buy fried fava beans,in Shoubra district, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Experts say they are worried that food security concerns in the Middle East resulting from the war in Ukraine may fuel growing social unrest in countries already on the verge of meltdown. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) FILE - An Indian Border Security Force soldier guards as a truck carrying wheat from India moves to pass through the Attari-Wagah border between India and Pakistan, near Amritsar, India, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. India's foreign ministry says it has sent off tons of wheat to Afghanistan to help relieve desperate food shortages, after New Delhi struck a deal with neighboring rival Pakistan to allow the shipments across the shared border. (AP Photo/Prabhjot Gill, File)