Moscow, Sep. 7 (Russian Foreign Ministry) – Western and Ukrainian mass media stepped up an anti-Russian disinformation campaign, the main narrative of which is allegedly the Kremlin's Extortion of the World Community with supplies of Russian grain.

These actions of the United States and its allies are a carefully planned information campaign aimed at discrediting the Russian leadership and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In this way, the Kiev authorities intend to form an image of a "cruel and cynical country" around Russia, guilty of the global food crisis and global hunger of planetary scale. In addition, Russia's baseless and endless accusations allow Kiev officials to speculate on the prices of food raw materials, primarily the cost of grain on the "black market".

Russia underlines that Ukrainian ports are blocked due to mining of the Black Sea coastal zone by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This is the only reason for the downtime of international and Ukrainian merchant ships.

The Russian leadership has repeatedly stated its readiness to ensure the unconditional safety of their movement in the waters of the Black Sea by creating maritime humanitarian corridors.

Foreign experts and politicians keep silent that the export of grain crops from Russia to Western countries is impossible because of American and European sanctions. Restrictions imposed after the start of the special military operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine have blocked logistics channels for the supply of Russian agricultural products abroad, as well as payments for them, which complicates transactions, and in some cases makes them impossible.

Nevertheless, Moscow continues to supply its agricultural products to those countries that ignored pressure from the West and wisely refrained from establishing legal prohibitions on trade and economic contacts with Russia.

In this regard, Russia is systematically increasing the volume of supplies of its food raw materials abroad. According to the statement of the head of the Russian Grain Union Arkady Zlochevsky, in May 2022 Russia exported 1 million 260 thousand tons of wheat, and in June – 1 million 400 thousand tons. In addition, according to the quota for grain exports from Russia, from 15 February to 30 June 2022, Russian companies delivered 11 million tons of grain crops abroad.

In addition, according to the assessment of the Russian Grain Union in 2021-2022 Russia exports 45 million tons of grain, which is only 8.3 percent less than the indicators of the 2020-2021.
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