The crisis that worries the world on the way to a solution?
Russian President Vladimir Putin said tonight (Friday) that his country does not oppose wheat exports from Ukraine and claims that this is a "bluff" designed to tarnish Russia's name and accuse it of rising food prices.
"Russia has nothing to do with the international grain crisis. This is a bluff and I will explain why. The world produces 800 tons of wheat every year, Ukraine wants to export 20 million good, less than 2.5 percent of world wheat production. Moreover, Ukraine can export wheat from the ports under its control. The access roads and we do not stop ships, "the Russian president said in an interview with a state television channel in the country.
Putin said similar things in a meeting with Senegalese President Maki Sal, arguing that wheat could be exported from Ukraine via Belarus under full Russian guarantee.
In Africa, there is growing criticism of the wheat prices that are rising due to the war in Ukraine, and Russian propaganda is making great efforts to blame the West for the situation.
Also reassured his Senegalese counterpart.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (archive), Photo: Reuters
Putin's remarks come after the Arava learned that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was expected to arrive in Turkey with the aim of meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Balut Chebushulu, who is expected to try to find a solution to the grain crisis caused by the war and the ongoing Black Sea siege.
Fear of stability in Western countries
The development comes a few weeks before the start of the harvest season in Ukraine, one of the largest wheat producers in the world and at a time of drought, heat waves and floods have already caused significant damage to the wheat harvest in West Asia.
Global fear of a sharp rise in grain prices and severe hunger in countries that rely on cheap grain due to conditions of poverty and scarcity.
Rising food prices in a period of global inflation and rising fuel prices can also affect political stability in Western countries and lead to an ongoing economic crisis in some European countries.
Moscow is aware of the power of Ukraine's wheat tap control and is doing everything in its power to exploit it in favor of the Russian war in Kiev.
Fear of hunger.
Sack of wheat in Egypt, May 2022,
The American news network CNN recently unveiled a series of satellite images proving that Russia is loading Ukrainian wheat cargo ships stolen from reservoirs that fell to Russia in the territories it occupied in eastern Ukraine.
There are now fears that Russia will also act to steal the wheat that will be produced in the coming harvest in eastern Ukraine, harming local farmers and grain buyers around the world.
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