Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to supply six African nations with free grain following the recent collapse of the Black Sea deal.

Putin told African leaders July 27 that Russia would be able to provide Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, the Central African Republic and Eritrea with 25,000 to 50,000 tons of free grain in the coming months, according to The Guardian.

In response to the free grain promises, UN secretary general António Guterres said that the donations would not be able to make up for the dramatic impact that the end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative would have had on the global grain market.

The announcement comes at a time when Russia’s military has continued to target the grain infrastructure at Ukrainian port cities, recently hitting the infrastructure of Odesa, which killed one person and caused significant damage to the city. Russia has attacked 26 port infrastructure facilities and five civilian vessels since July 18, according to the deputy prime minister for the Restoration of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kubrakov.

Kubrakov added that Russia has been restricting shipments near the territorial waters of Bulgaria and in temporarily occupied Crimea.

Russia announced July 17 it was backing out of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. The deal, which was created to limit global food shortages caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, has allowed over 32 million metric tons of grain to be transported to the rest of the world since the conflict began in 2022.