 While moving on, Egypt's prime minister has announced the country is to diversify its sources of wheat to avoid relying on what he described as specific sources for this product. The minister added that the country would be using its strategic reserves until the end of 2022. The announcement followed a ban on the export of wheat in other food staples announced by Ukraine. Egypt relies on Russia and Ukraine for the supply of wheat that is turned into bread, noodles and animal feed. Now millions in Egypt rely on subsidized bread made with Ukrainian wheat. Sharp spikes in the cost of wheat would severely affect the country's ability to keep bread prices at the current subsidized level.