Russia, a world power in grain production, cannot sell its production and its fertilizers because of Western sanctions which mainly affect the financial and logistics sectors.
Russian President Vladimir Putin today accused the EU of blocking the donation of 300,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer to countries that need it most, as Moscow complains that the West is erecting barriers to its exports.
“The extreme of cynicism is that even our offer (…) to transport free of charge 300,000 tons of Russian fertilizers, blocked in European ports due to sanctions, to the countries that need them has still not received a response” Putin said at a ceremony to present credentials to about 20 ambassadors.
“It’s clear: they don’t want to let our businesses make money,” he noted and hastened to add: “But we want to give (those tons of fertilizer) to countries in need for free.”
Russia, a world power in grain production, cannot sell its production and its fertilizers because of Western sanctions which mainly affect the financial and logistics sectors.
In 2021, Russia was the largest exporter of nitrogen fertilizers and the second largest supplier of potash and phosphate fertilizers, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Today, Vladimir Putin once again denounced “the illegal sanctions” imposed on it by some Western countries “in order to strengthen their position”, which, according to the Russian president, have “negative effects on them as well”, but also ” in states that are completely innocent, (which) suffer from this kind of policy, primarily the developing and the poorest countries”.
Countries in Africa, southern Asia and Latin America are those “most affected by Western restrictions on the supply of energy, food and Russian fertilizers to world markets.”
The remarks come as Moscow increasingly questions two agreements reached in July in Istanbul allowing Ukraine to export wheat and corn despite the Russian offensive, but also theoretically Moscow’s exports that have been affected by Western sanctions. .
The Kremlin mainly states that the majority of Ukrainian food products go to European countries, which Kyiv denies.
Russian criticism of the Istanbul accords has raised fears of renewed curbs on Ukrainian exports as Russia’s war in Ukraine raises concerns about global food security amid widespread market price increases.
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