His open blackmail Vladimir Putin to tackle global food crisis. The Russian president said in a telephone conversation with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Thursday that Russia was ready to make a significant contribution to resolving the food crisis, but only if the West lifted sanctions, the Kremlin said.
Putin said Moscow was ready to export grains and fertilizers to deal with the crisis.
He also told Draghi that Russia was ready to continue its uninterrupted gas supply to Italy.
“The West is responsible for Ukraine’s export problems”
The Kremlin has previously denied US and European Union allegations that Russia has blocked grain exports from Ukraine and accused the West of causing such a situation by imposing sanctions.
“We categorically do not accept these accusations. “Instead, we blame Western countries for taking action that led to this situation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peshkov told a news conference.
Moscow has called on the West to lift sanctions, which it says are blocking grain exports from Ukraine.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is among those who have accused Moscow of using food exports as a weapon, while Kyiv has said Russia has stolen hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain in areas occupied by its forces.
Moscow rejects: Italy’s plan for peace in Ukraine is not serious
Earlier, the head of the Russian diplomacy estimated, in an interview published today, that the peace plan in Ukraine proposed by Italy It’s not serious”.
THE Sergei Lavrov He also stated that he knows the content only from the press, as text has not been forwarded to Moscow.
Undersecretary of State Andrei Rudenko said Monday that he had been received and was being questioned.
“It’s a matter of Crimea [η ουκρανική χερσόνησος που προσαρτήθηκε από τη Ρωσία] and Donbass [μια αυτόνομη περιφέρεια που αναγνωρίζεται από τη Μόσχα] “(will) belong to Ukraine with great autonomy,” Lavrov said in an interview with state television RT.
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