UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he is deeply concerned about hunger becoming widespread as the war in Ukraine threatens food security in different parts of the world.

Speaking alongside Austria’s chancellor and foreign minister in Vienna on Wednesday, Guterres also said talks were going on to evacuate more civilians from conflict zones in Ukraine and expressed confidence that more evacuations would happen in the future.

Guterres said at an earlier event that the time would come when there are peace negotiations over Ukraine, but he did not see that time in the immediate future.

The war between Russia and Ukrain has been going since february 24th 2022, the UN corroborated 7,061 civilian casualties, with 3,381 killed and 3,680 injured across the country since the beginning of the invasion.