First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, April 14First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky called on Western countries to lift unilateral sanctions against Russia if they really want to avoid a food crisis. «The main factor of instability and a harbinger of problems today is not the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, and the sanctions measures imposed against our country, aimed at breaking the logistics chains and financial schemes for paying for any supplies from Russia, except for the energy resources that the West needs,» Polyansky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. «If you really want to help the world avoid a food crisis, lift your self-imposed sanctions, and poor countries will feel the difference. And if you are not ready for this, then do not engage in demagoguery and do not try to mislead everyone, «he said. Earlier, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas -Greenfield at the UN Security Council meeting on Yemen mentioned the topic of Ukraine, expressing the opinion that Operation R F in Ukraine «exacerbated the already precarious situation» in the field of food security in Yemen.
