He said this in an interview with Pavel Zarubin in the Moscow.
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Putin" on TV channel "Russia 1".
“This food crisis is used for a variety of purposes, not only in the field of propaganda - to whitewash Ukraine and once again hang all the dogs, sorry for the rude expression, on Moscow.
But even if you listen, for example, to the statement of Boris Johnson and his Minister for Foreign Affairs, they are clearly trying to create conditions, to find pretexts for the Royal Navy to infiltrate the Black Sea and become almost in charge of all the grain liberation processes. from those ports that are mined by Ukrainians and which Ukrainians are obliged to clear mines, ”Lavrov said.
As previously reported in the Russian headquarters for humanitarian response, Ukraine blocked 70 foreign ships from 16 states in six Ukrainian ports.