Russia Blames Ukraine For Food Crisis Created By Russian Invasion – By Michael Wasiura (Newsweek) / June 21, 2022
As Russian warships blockade Ukrainian ports while Russian missiles strike Ukrainian grain facilities, Russian officials and state media figures have begun accusing the government in Kyiv of creating a global food crisis.
But facts on the ground do not support the arguments.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken outlined the situation in his opening remarks at a virtual roundtable discussion on June 6 on “Food Security Issues Arising from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine,”
“A Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea is preventing Ukraine’s crops from being shipped to their normal destinations…President Putin is stopping food from being shipped and is aggressively using his propaganda machine to deflect or distort responsibility because he hopes it’ll get the world to give in to him and end the sanctions. In other words, quite simply put, it’s blackmail,” Blinken said.
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