Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “the food crisis is being used for a variety of purposes, and not just in the field of propaganda, to whitewash the face of Ukraine and make Russia responsible for everything.”

And in a press interview, he pointed out that “if you listen, for example, to the statements of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Foreign Minister Liz Terrace, it becomes clear that they are trying to create conditions and find pretexts for the UK to penetrate the Black Sea and start … Manage all transshipments of grain from those ports that are mined by the Ukrainians and from which they must be exported.

The UN has repeatedly warned about the danger of a food crisis in the world due to a shortage of grain, and the West accused Russia of obstructing the supply of Ukrainian grain shipments to world markets, and Moscow categorically rejects such accusations.

It is reported that it was the Kyiv authorities who put up many obstacles to the export of grain, including the deliberate burning of grain in the port of Mariupol, and the Ukrainian forces planted mines in the Black Sea, which does not allow grain to be transported to world markets by ships.