{"id":255286,"date":"2022-06-25T06:29:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T06:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255286"},"modified":"2022-06-27T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T07:16:06","slug":"the-uk-is-doing-its-best-to-stir-a-food-crisis-while-pinning-the-blame-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255286","title":{"rendered":"The UK is Doing Its Best to Stir a Food Crisis While Pinning the Blame on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ekaterina Blunova \u2013 Samizdat via Aletho News June 24, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Russia\u2019s special operation in Ukraine may cause a two-year global food crisis even if the standoff ends tomorrow, The Telegraph<\/em> claims, citing Western officials. They insist that exporting grain \u201ctrapped\u201d in Ukraine is the remedy, while remaining mute about West\u2019s sanctions paralyzing larger food exports from Russia to third-world countries.<\/p>\n

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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this year. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe are very clear that this grain crisis is urgent, that it needs to be solved within the next month otherwise we could see devastating consequences,\u201d UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the press on June 23.<\/p>\n

The ongoing conflict has disrupted production, \u201ccausing global food prices to soar to record levels,\u201d claims The Telegraph<\/em>. In particular, wheat prices increased to an average of 56.2% in May, 2022 above their value last year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n

The newspaper\u2019s source says that the British officials see current efforts to move Ukrainian grain over land and road as \u201cfar below\u201d what is needed. They insist that the commodity needs to be exported by sea, accusing Russia of blocking Ukraine\u2019s food supplies from leaving Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports. According to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Moscow was trying to hold the world \u201cransom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newspaper also cites \u201cnewly declassified US intelligence\u201d claiming that the Russian navy \u201chas been given orders to lay mines\u201d in Odessa and Ochakov and \u201cmined\u201d the Dnieper River \u201cas part of its blockade of Ukrainian grain exports.\u201d According to BoJo, the UK is helping Ukraine \u201cat a technical level to help demine Odessa.\u201d<\/p>\n

Western Press Remain Mute About Russia\u2019s Black Sea Corridors<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Russia denounced the US and the UK claims, stressing that the Ukrainian military mined their own ports during the retreat. Furthermore, Ukraine continues to stampede Russo-Turkish efforts to demine the area and ensure the safe passage of ships from the country\u2019s territorial waters.<\/p>\n

On June 2, Russia\u2019s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya made it clear that Russia is ready to provide safe corridors for Ukrainian ships carrying 20 million tons of grain if Kiev demines the water area surrounding its ports.<\/p>\n

In late May, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian Navy had created safe zones in the Black and Azov Seas for ships leaving Ukraine along humanitarian corridors. The corridors with a length of 139 miles and 3 miles wide are operating daily from 8:00 am to 7:00 pm (GMT+3) in the Black Sea for vessels stationed in the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, the Kiev authorities \u201ccontinue to do everything possible to evade interaction with representatives of foreign states and ship-owning companies in resolving the issue of ensuring the safe exit of blocked ships,\u201d according to the MoD.<\/p>\n

Turkey, which has worked with Russia in demining the Black Sea and providing safe passage to vessels, echoes Moscow\u2019s concerns. Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu told Anadolu Agency<\/em> last month that the two major obstacles hindering grain exports are mines placed by the Ukrainian military in the Odessa water area as well as Western sanctions slapped on Russian ships in terms of insurance and the provision of services at international ports.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Role in Food Crisis Largely Overestimated<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Western press is shying away from discussing how anti-Russian sanctions, imposed on the country\u2019s trade, finance, transportation and crucial agricultural commodities have backfired on the global food market sending prices high.<\/p>\n

Senegalese President and African Union chief Macky Sall raised the alarm earlier this month over Western restrictions preventing Russia\u2019s grain and fertilizers exports to Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cSanctions against Russia have aggravated the situation with the supply of grains and fertilizers to African countries. We no longer have access to them, and this poses a serious threat to food security on the continent,\u201d Sall warned on 3 June during an official visit to Russia.<\/p>\n

Together Ukraine and Russia produce about a third of the wheat traded in global markets, according to the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Still, Russia is the world\u2019s largest exporter of wheat, providing more than 17% of all wheat sold in the global market while Ukraine\u2019s share amounts to roughly 10%.<\/p>\n

For comparison\u2019s sake, Russia exported 44.64 million tons of wheat in 2018, while Ukraine provided the global market with 16.91 tons of the commodity the same year, according to FAO.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s role as a food commodity exporter is deliberately overestimated by the West, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a June interview with Rossiya-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world produces about 800 million tons of grain and wheat per year. Now we are told that Ukraine is ready to export 20 million tons. 20 million tons compared to the 800 million tons the world makes is 2.5% of that figure. But if we proceed from the fact that wheat makes up only 20% of the total food supply (and this is the reality, these are not our figures but those of the UN) this means that these 20 million tons of Ukrainian wheat make up 0.5 percent,\u201d the Russian president told the broadcaster.<\/p>\n

Putin dismissed claims that Russia was supposedly trying to block the export of Ukrainian grain, calling the allegations a \u201cbluff.\u201d The Russian president stressed there were no obstacles to the export of grain from Ukraine. He stressed that ships carrying wheat could enter the Black Sea any time if Kiev clears ports of mines. World wheat prices have fallen by 10% after Putin signaled Russia\u2019s readiness to ensure the transport of grain from Ukrainian ports.<\/p>\n

G7 & NATO to Double Down on Further Isolating Russia<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While the British government continues to castigate Russia\u2019s special operation for the unfolding global food crisis, the British prime minister is calling for Europe to step up military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In particular, BoJo came up with a new plan offering Ukraine a training campaign for its military personnel and urging Western leaders to provide \u201cconstant funding and technical help\u201d to Ukraine to ensure Kiev\u2019s longstanding resistance to Russia.<\/p>\n

BoJo is expected to push France and Germany to strengthen their support for Ukraine during the G7 summit next week, \u201cas he fears that [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelensky could be bounced into agreeing a \u2018s***y\u2019 peace deal [with Russia],\u201d according to the Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n

For its part, Reuters<\/em> projects that next week G7 and NATO leaders will work to \u201cincrease pressure\u201d on Russia over its special operation in Ukraine, while seeking to further isolate the country from the global economy.<\/p>\n

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