He recalled that the crisis began many years ago for a number of reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the miscalculation of Western countries.
“The current situation has exacerbated the problem.
Western sanctions have severed food supply chains.
Dozens of foreign ships are in Ukrainian ports in the Black and Azov Seas because they are under sanctions.
We are ready to let them go, but the Ukrainian government does not cooperate,” Lavrov explained.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said earlier that the threat of drifting Ukrainian mines in the Black Sea still persists.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian Navy delivered 420 anchor mines in the Azov and Black Seas from February 25 to March 4.