Thank you very much.
I've been there already three times, and I'll be back there next week. As I was saying earlier, the Ukrainians who have made it to the border, as sad as that is, are the very fortunate ones in many ways. As I stood there looking at the lines, I saw that most of the people in the lines were women with their little children. The front lines of battle are mostly men, although both men and women are on the front lines of battle. Those who are standing in line with their children are in brutal cold weather, in lines that may be a mile long, all day and all night. Again, they're the ones who are at least out of harm's way in terms of combat.
Inside, in terms of trying to reach them, Russia, as you can imagine, is not some simple army. This is a very, very powerful military campaign. It moves by the hour and by the day. We're trying to position the supplies that we need, where and when and how, but the train system is impaired. So is the trucking system. Guess where all the truck drivers are? They're on the battlefront.
So we're working through a lot of these issues. We've reached a million people. We want to scale up, as I was saying, to two and a half million, then to four million, and then to six million. Now, for every million we try to scale up, it takes $50 million to $60 million, give or take, to reach that many people on a monthly basis. You just start doing the math. If we have enough money to go through May but we don't have any more money, then we have to back down from the six million and start doing just two million a month. What happens to the other millions who are really food-insecure?
It's a very, very difficult balance. We're looking now at how much money we can get in. You don't want 40 million people going to the outside, for certain, for a multitude of reasons. We're trying to partner with the government as well as others inside the country in terms of who can do what, where, as we move supplies around.
Now, here's a couple of issues that not many people see on the surface. You know that ports are completely shut down. You can't truck enough grain outside of Ukraine to make a difference. Ports are where all the infrastructure is, so we have to deal with that. The problem is that all the silos, the big silos for the massive supply chain, are full. If the harvest comes in July and August and we haven't moved those millions upon millions of metric tonnes of grain to the outside, we, meaning the whole world, will have a massive problem in terms of the supply chain globally in the fall without major outside offsets.
There are those types of issues as well as the harvesting issues, the planting issues and attending to the crops issues over the next few months. The wheat crops were planted right before the war started. That's in the ground, although you still have fertilizer and issues like that of tending to those particular crops. We've been buying everything we can inside Ukraine to make sure it's utilized for the people inside Ukraine. The government is doing a remarkable job, as well, of reaching them. There are some places we can't get into because they have not been deconflicted. We are asking all sides, especially in the particular confrontational areas where Russia is, to deconflict so that we can move supplies in—