of that besieged city. he is saying that he s going to speak to president putin imminently about that. the ukrainians have been asking for food aid in those besieged cities encircled by russian troops. the uk will be providing $2.6 million worth of food aid, water, tinned goods, and the african development bank saying africa needs around $1 billion of food to help wheat exports there, because of a lack of food exporting from ukraine that they normally rely on, to stop a food crisis there. let me show you these pictures. it is also affecting russia. this is a scramble for sugarfilmed in russian supermarkets, widely circulated on social media. it is driven by government attempts to regulate prices, skyrocketing demand and a crash in the value of the russian currency. it is true russia imports a relatively small amount of sugar but russian authorities say it is being driven by consumer panic buying and it has imposed a temporary ban on sugar exports,