"If Kyiv had solved the problem of demining the ports, the efforts of the UN and Turkey to export Ukrainian grain would have been successful long ago.

Attempts to create an international coalition for this purpose are aimed only at interfering in the affairs of the Black Sea region.

APA's Moscow correspondent reports that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said this at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hussein Amir-Abdullahian on the results of talks in Tehran



. This is already acknowledged by members of the US government and representatives of international organizations dealing with food security. The initial causes of the crisis and the crisis were created several years ago, and it is not today or yesterday, but several years ago "It started when the Western countries began to pursue a very careless populist policy in the field of finance," he said.

Lavrov noted that the current efforts of Turkey and the UN Secretary General would have long been successful if Ukraine and its Western owners had solved the problem of demining of Black Sea ports. "We see this very well. Russia guarantees the safety of ships in the Bosphorus, and we have an understanding with Turkey on this issue."

Russia's foreign minister said that attempts to create a universal tragedy from the amount of grain left in Ukraine are completely unclean, as it is well known that this grain accounts for less than 1% of global wheat and other cereals: "Now Ukrainians there It is important to force the release of foreign ships held hostage, and not to divert this problem from the mistakes and failures of the West in its international food and fertilizer trade policy. ”