“Accusations of us in provoking the impending food crisis are extremely destructive.
Colleagues want to make the rest of the world forget that the measures of pressure on Russia directly affected its ability to export various goods, ”the diplomat said in a statement.
He noted that we are talking primarily about the disconnection of Russian banks from the SWIFT system and sanctions against the transport sector.
According to Antonov, the United States refuses to acknowledge the impact that miscalculations and systemic errors in the macroeconomic, energy and climate policies of the United States and its allies had on the situation.
Earlier, British diplomat Alastair Crook, in an interview with the host of the Going Underground program on RT, Afshin Rattanzi, spoke about the impact of sanctions against Russia on the global food market.
UN Secretary General António Guterres at a meeting of the UN Security Council announced the need to return products and fertilizers from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus to world markets.