Deputy Ambassador to the UN called sanctions the cause of the food crisis

The food crisis may arise due to the sanctions imposed on Russia, Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, said at a meeting of the Security Council on Sudan and South Sudan.

“A possible food crisis is provoked not by a Russian special operation in Ukraine, but by illegal unilateral sanctions imposed by the West, which broke the logistics and financial chains, completely disconnected Russia, a producer of food and fertilizers, from the SWIFT system,” Evstigneeva said.

Earlier, the UN noted that the disruption of supplies due to military operations in Ukraine could threaten food shortages. “We already had problems with food prices. What countries are doing now is exacerbating this, and the war has brought us into a situation from which it is very easy to fall into a food crisis,” warned Maximo Torero, chief economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

The fact that food problems could worsen in the world was also announced on March 24 by world leaders - Presidents of France and the United States Emmanuel Macron and Joe Biden after the summit of the G7 countries. According to Macron, such a development of events will be a direct consequence of the Russian special operation.