Russian President Vladimir Putin viewed the West as cynically destabilizing global agricultural production, comparing the West to the former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who advised her hungry citizens who had no bread to eat cake, saying, “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake.” Speaking about the position of the West in relation to the food crisis.

He added: “Antoinette is that, looking from the window of her palace at a crowd of hungry, striking citizens, she once said indifferently: “Well, if they don’t have bread, let them eat cakes.” products, with issues of this kind by imposing restrictions, for example, on the supply of Russian and Belarusian fertilizers, which makes it difficult to export Russian grain to world markets.

Putin noted that a good grain harvest is expected in Russia, and that the country will be able to supply 50 million tons of grain to world markets, stressing that Russia does not interfere with the export of Ukrainian grain.