“We must understand the position of the Ukrainian side, but we are talking about Ukrainian grain.
Firstly, as far as we know, this grain is much less than the Ukrainians themselves say.
Second, well, we probably shouldn't overstate the importance of these grain stocks in terms of impact on international grain markets.
This is too small a percentage to have a significant impact on the development of the global food crisis that has already begun,” the Kremlin spokesman said.
The cause of the crisis was the mistakes of the leadership of various countries, Peskov stressed.
“We repeat once again, we talked about this, including Minister Lavrov today saying that it was not the Ukrainian crisis that caused or catalyzed the food crisis in the world.
This was preceded by a whole chain of events and erroneous actions of governments around the world,” the presidential press secretary told reporters.
As Russian President Vladimir Putin noted earlier, decent people in the United States admitted that Washington made mistakes that led to crises, including in the food market.
As Maxim Oreshkin, presidential assistant for economic affairs, noted in an interview with RT, the crises observed in the food and fuel markets are clearly not caused by recent events around Ukraine.
Mistakes were made in the US during the pandemic crisis, and also in Europe, where the reliance on short-term contracts drove up energy prices.