President Joe Biden says he's working closely with European Union partners to build temporary silos along the Ukraine border and some in Poland to get much needed grain out. Biden made the announcement during a speech at the AFL-CIO event in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Blockaded ports in Ukraine, caused by the ongoing war with Russia, have impeded exports of up to 25 million tons of grain from the key European breadbasket. This comes as Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of stealing Ukraine’s grain and causing a global food crisis that could cause millions of deaths from hunger. The head of Ukraine’s presidential office accused Russia's military of shelling and burning grain fields ahead of the harvest.

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