In terms of cynicism, this behavior can hardly be surpassed.
First Russia blocks Ukrainian ports, stops exporting its own grain and then robs Ukraine's harvests.
Every single step is already another Russian declaration of war, in these cases against the food security of many people.
The warlords in the Kremlin brazenly claim that the sanctions imposed on Russia are to blame for the impending famine in many countries.
Grain exports from Russia are not subject to any sanctions.
Russian blackmail
The grain weapon of war has been drawn, the next round in the grain war has begun.
Grain prices are rising worldwide, bread riots are looming in some countries and starvation in others.
The Kremlin is taking advantage of this threatening development by blackmailing the West: it wants to deliver grain when sanctions, which are obviously hitting it hard, are lifted.
It is anything but credible when Putin and Lavrov want to slip into the role of charitable benefactors with their mendacious gestures towards African countries that are particularly hard hit.
Because it is Russia alone that is responsible for the misery of many people.
After all, it was former Russian President Medvedev who spoke of the “silent weapon” of food.