Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov. File photoWASHINGTON, Aug 6 Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov called «absurd» the attempts of the American authorities to blame Russia for the global food crisis and called Western sanctions one of its real reasons. on Russia are absurd,» he said, commenting on the recent statements on this subject by the head of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Samantha Power.Peskov called the grocery deal an example of how to negotiate. Antonov explained the shortage of agricultural products by a combination of a number of factors, including Western sanctions that make Russian supplies difficult. «These are the consequences of the pandemic, disruptions in supply chains, inflation, accelerated urbanization, accumulated soil fatigue, climate change «An array» of illegal anti-Russian sanctions occupies a separate place in this row. The restrictions are deliberately designed to confuse and intimidate foreign companies, to make it as difficult as possible for their cooperation with Russian enterprises,» he said. Antonov said that statements about Russia's guilt «are a lot of lies «in the absence of» a proper analysis and understanding of the situation. The ambassador welcomed the resumption of agricultural transportation across the Black Sea and expressed the hope that Ukraine and «its curators in the West» would not try to undermine this process. after all, as far as we know, two of the three dry cargo ships that left Ukrainian harbors this morning are heading for Europe,» he said. In Istanbul on July 22, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu signed two interconnected documents to address the problems of supplying food and fertilizer to world markets. Documents are a single package. The first one, the memorandum, assumes the obligation of the UN to remove various restrictions on the export of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers to world markets. The second defines the algorithm for the export of Ukrainian agricultural products from the Black Sea ports controlled by Ukraine. The second document is based on the algorithm proposed by Russia, according to which a maritime humanitarian corridor is created for the safe exit of commercial ships from the Ukrainian-controlled Black Sea ports and back. Putin and Erdogan discussed the implementation of agreements on a food deal
