“Russia quite consciously uses hunger as a military weapon, takes the whole world hostage,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

Earlier, the director general of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that rising food prices threaten disaster for low-income countries.

In turn, Maxim Oreshkin, Assistant to the Russian President for Economic Affairs, said that Russia is doing everything to help overcome world hunger by supplying more products to the global market.