ANKARA, June 8 — RIA Novosti. Western countries are trying to keep the «grain issue» in Ukraine constantly irritating, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
“(Problem — ed.) Our Western colleagues are clearly trying to keep it as a constant irritant. The sooner we solve it, the better it will probably be for everyone, ”Lavrov said at a press conference.
In The United Nations has repeatedly announced the threat of a food crisis due to grain shortages, accused by the West Russia in counteracting the supply of Ukrainian grain to the world markets — Moscow he vehemently denied such accusations. At the same time, the Kiev authorities themselves created many obstacles to the export of grain for export: in addition to the currently revealed arson fire on grain in the port of Mariupol, the Ukrainian army carried out the extraction of the basin Black Seawhich does not allow grain to be transported to world markets by ship.
