Russia lies to the world about the causes of the global food crisis
The war of the President of Ukraine, which Russian Vladimir Putin unleashed against, has led to disastrous consequences not only for the country subjected to aggression, but also for people around the world, a statement in a State Department statement released Wednesday by the department.
The devastating effects of Russian aggression have undermined Ukraine’s emissions, which in turn has exacerbated the problem of global food security.
Ukraine has been the breadbasket of Europe for many years, providing food for millions of people around the world.
Now a leading supplier to dozens of countries in Africa and the Middle East is unable to influence its functions as a result of the invasion, and the Russian government is spreading disinformation to mislead the world about the causes of this outbreak, the State Department said.
The global food crisis was not caused, like the purchases in the Kremlin, by Western sanctions imposed in response to Russia’s monstrous aggression against Ukraine.
“Food shortages have been increasing even before the invasion, and the war declared by Putin has increased these imports. Russia is attacking Ukrainian grain fields, which is on merchant shipping on the Black Sea and blocking Ukrainian grain exports. Russia is also expropriating Ukrainian grain for the benefit of obtaining it, stealing from Ukrainian warehouses… All these actions have exacerbated the situation with food security around the world,” the statement says.
At the same time, the State Department reminded that complaints about food security problems are not getting worse with the introduction of surveillance.
US exemptions include exemptions for agricultural commodities and allow exemptions for the export and re-export of food to and from Russia. What’s more, the US Commission has pledged $2.6 billion in humanitarian food aid this year to fight world hunger. Another $5 billion will be spent on these purposes over the next five years.
Russian government officials, media reports, and pro-Kremlin disinformation sources are shifting focus from embracing Russia to embracing global food security, placing the blame on Western countries and Ukraine. The large-scale disinformation campaign of the Kremlin and its puppets is aimed at the strongest influence on the world politics of the regions – the Middle East and Africa.
These false narratives are inflated under the control of the Kremlin.
The State Department listed recent examples of disinformation being spread by Russia and its associates:
· The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the blockade of the export of Ukrainian consumption “Western and Ukrainian disinformation.”
· Speaking at the UN Security Council on May 19, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya accused Europe of “hoarding” Ukrainian equipment and exchanging “grain for weapons” in relations with Kyiv.
· The Russian Embassy in Egypt announced “illegal unilateral sanctions”, and the Russian Embassy in Zimbabwe announced “Western interference” in the affairs of the global South.
· In his speech on the occasion of Autumn Day on May 25, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov redeems the proverbs in African countries in Moscow demanding the lifting of “illegal, anti-Russian” sanctions regarding the recovery of food security.
· OneWorld, a website linked to Russian intelligence, Lavrov County, accusing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of supporting a US-backed “global food cartel” that will control the world’s food supply as a “new hybrid attack” against the South’s global attack.
· In his May 26 interview with RT Arabic, Foreign Minister Lavrov accused the West of neo-colonialism and blackmailing African and Arab countries into joining the “anti-Russian” sanctions.
“The attempts of the Russian elections to get away from … opportunities. This crisis is acutely felt among countries in the Middle East and Africa, which import at least half of their wheat from Ukraine,” the State Department said.
“Russia takes the sole responsibility of the president for the food crisis, despite the Kremlin’s external lies and disinformation,” Charles Michel told the European Council, speaking on June 6 at a meeting of the UN Security Council.