He recalled that according to statements by Western politicians and the media, products are exported both by railway trains and by barges along the Danube.
“We have reasonable suspicions that this grain is not going to the needs of the starving global south, but is being pumped into the granaries of European countries.
As far as we understand, Ukraine is paying for the weapons supplied by the West,” RIA Novosti quoted the diplomat as saying.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry previously reported that 240,000 tons of grain had been taken out of Ukraine.
Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that Ukraine daily supplies food to Romania in exchange for weapons.
Director of the UN World Food Program (WFP) David Beasley asked Russia to open seaports in Ukraine for the export of grain.
In turn, the Kremlin recalled that before opening Ukrainian ports, including for the export of grain, they need to be cleared of mines, since the danger to shipping remains.