After the Ukraine Peace Congress in Switzerland, urgent appeals were made to Russia and Putin to finally allow peace negotiations.

Ghana's President Akufo-Addo also gave a summary of the peace meeting and expressed the view that Africa is the “biggest victim” of Russia's attack on Ukraine in violation of international law.

The consequences of the invasion went far beyond Europe's borders. He was referring to the food supply from Ukraine for many African countries. Ukraine exports millions of tons of corn, wheat, sunflower seeds and other agricultural products. According to the Council of the European Union, around two thirds of the wheat goes to countries in the Global South, many of them in Africa, and thus represents an important pillar of the food supply for people in these countries.

The blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports is massively hampering this export. The Russian bombing of the Ukrainian Danube of Reni and Ismajil are also said to be hampering wheat exports and posing a massive threat to supplies.

President Akufo-Addo called on Russia and China, which was also absent from the Swiss conference, to participate in the peace talks “if we ever want to reach a final solution”. He went on to say that Ghana “rejects the bullying of small states by big powers. In this context, we consider the invasion and acts of aggression by Russia and will continue to do so,” he said, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper The Kyiv Independent.