Grain harvesting in Ukraine. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 26.The Russian Federation categorically does not accept the accusations against it of obstructing the export of grain from Ukraine, it is the decisions of the West that led to the blockade, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. took a number of illegal actions that led to this blockade,» Peskov said, commenting on the remark that Western countries accuse the Russian Federation of blocking grain supplies from Ukraine to African countries and other countries.
The West will leave Ukraine without bread. What Kyiv exchanged grain for Answering a clarifying question whether this means that Western countries need to lift sanctions, from the point of view of Russia, in order for grain supplies to resume, Peskov said: «They must cancel those illegal decisions that prevent the charter of ships that prevent the export of grain and so on and so forth. «Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia does not interfere with Ukraine's grain exports, logistical problems arose through the fault of Kyiv, its troops mined their seaports. The Foreign Ministry added that «the talk about Russia's allegedly blocking the export of Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea ports and the resulting deficit in the grain market is nothing but speculation.» A former employee of the Odessa sea harbor told RIA Novosti that Ukraine is exporting wheat reserves from storage facilities in the port of Odessa by alternative routes under pressure from the European Union, despite the threat of a grain shortage in the country itself.
Russia is required to feed the whole world for free Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that grain from Ukraine, according to Western politicians and media reports, is actively exported both by trains and barges along the Danube. According to him, Russia has reasonable suspicions that this grain is not going to the needs of the starving global South, but is pumped into the granaries of European countries — this is how Ukraine pays for weapons supplied by the West. A number of Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation due to the situation on Ukraine. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of sanctions against the Russian Federation, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of starvation in some countries. />The West forbids feeding the starving world with totalitarian grain from Russia
