US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken directly addressed Russia at the Big Twenty Closed Summit, which takes place at Bali, and demanded that it resume the export of Ukrainian grain, which accumulated in ports blocked by Russian troops. This is reported by the Air Force.
“I turn to our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. Its grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking the ports? You must release this grain,” Blinken said to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, with whom, according to the words Western representatives, he refused to meet personally.
food security is one of the main topics of the Summit of the Foreign Ministry of the “Twenty” this year. Western countries accuse Russia of the Russian troops that attacked Ukraine interfere with the export of Ukrainian food, which creates a serious shortage in world markets and threatens some countries with hunger.
Russia denies accusations of creating a threat to world food security and insists that dry cargo loads with Ukrainian grain cannot leave the ports, since Kyiv mined approaches to them. In addition, according to Moscow, the sanctions imposed against it are to blame for the lack of food.