“The West forgets that the crisis phenomena in the world food market are primarily associated with accumulated mistakes and miscalculations in the macroeconomic, energy and agricultural policies of Western countries directly,” Zakharova said at a briefing.
According to her, unilateral sanctions against Russia exacerbated this trend.
She added that millions of people will be subject to starvation "because of the geopolitical ambitions, selfishness and stupidity of the collective West."
Earlier, the Chinese edition of Huanqiu Shibao, in its article, called the statements of the G7 countries that Russia is to blame for the wheat shortage and the food crisis a political provocation.