GermanyBERLIN, Mar 20 German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir urged Germans to eat less meat for the sake of fighting a Russia that he says is using food supplies as a weapon.
"Even though I'm a vegetarian, I won't preach that everyone should go vegetarian. But let's put it this way: eating less meat would be a contribution against (Russian President Vladimir) Putin,» Ozdemir told Spiegel magazine. answered the publication's question in the affirmative about whether Russia uses food supplies as a weapon. «Obviously, this is so,» said the minister, who convinced Russia to «use its export power.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. In response, Western countries imposed new anti-Russian sanctions, including against Russian banks and enterprises . A number of companies announced their withdrawal from the Russian market and the closure of production facilities in the country. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that Western companies that refuse to work with Russia did so under enormous pressure, but Moscow will solve all the problems with the economy that the West creates for it.
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