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#DebunkingMyths
The on-going attempts to blame Russia for "weaponising" grain and food supplies are completely without merit.
❗️ Faсts: Russia is a responsible member of the global food market. It is the Western illegitimate sanctions that are in fact damaging global food security.
We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis and are well aware of the importance of supplies of socially important commodities, including food, to the socio-economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and the achievement of SDGs.
The illegitimate unilateral restrictions imposed by the EU, the US and their satellites remain the main obstacle to normal export relations between Russia (and Belarus) and buyers of grain and fertilizers.
#Think4Yourself
The on-going attempts to blame Russia for "weaponising" grain and food supplies are completely without merit.
❗️ Faсts: Russia is a responsible member of the global food market. It is the Western illegitimate sanctions that are in fact damaging global food security.
We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis and are well aware of the importance of supplies of socially important commodities, including food, to the socio-economic development of countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East and the achievement of SDGs.
The illegitimate unilateral restrictions imposed by the EU, the US and their satellites remain the main obstacle to normal export relations between Russia (and Belarus) and buyers of grain and fertilizers.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, significant price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. The situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, significant price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.
✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.
In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. The situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: The dire economic situation was caused by the pandemic and Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas.
✅ Fact: The EU avoids any mention of the need to ensure an uninterrupted supply of Russian agricultural products to international markets (which is being obstructed by the West’s sanctions).
Brussels continues to differentiate between “good” and “bad” food based on whether its origin is “democratic” or not. The EU stubbornly opposes agricultural exports from Crimea.
Besides that, they are deliberately undermining the preparations for the next sowing campaign both in the republics and the liberated areas of Ukraine.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: The dire economic situation was caused by the pandemic and Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas.
✅ Fact: The EU avoids any mention of the need to ensure an uninterrupted supply of Russian agricultural products to international markets (which is being obstructed by the West’s sanctions).
Brussels continues to differentiate between “good” and “bad” food based on whether its origin is “democratic” or not. The EU stubbornly opposes agricultural exports from Crimea.
Besides that, they are deliberately undermining the preparations for the next sowing campaign both in the republics and the liberated areas of Ukraine.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: President Putin is deliberately blocking the wheat supply of the world.
✅ Fact: According to UN statistics, 800 million tonnes of grain is produced annually around the world. Thus, the estimated 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain cannot radically resolve the problem by definition.
Also the EU is still dependent on forage crop imports, mostly corn, that is why while shouting from the rooftops about the urgent need to save Ukrainian cereals, the EU is primarily concerned with its own food security.
Russia has never blocked grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. On the contrary, we are doing our best to provide two humanitarian maritime corridors in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The problem is the high mine hazard and Kiev’s threats to fire at ships. This makes safe navigation in its territorial waters impossible.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: President Putin is deliberately blocking the wheat supply of the world.
✅ Fact: According to UN statistics, 800 million tonnes of grain is produced annually around the world. Thus, the estimated 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain cannot radically resolve the problem by definition.
Also the EU is still dependent on forage crop imports, mostly corn, that is why while shouting from the rooftops about the urgent need to save Ukrainian cereals, the EU is primarily concerned with its own food security.
Russia has never blocked grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. On the contrary, we are doing our best to provide two humanitarian maritime corridors in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The problem is the high mine hazard and Kiev’s threats to fire at ships. This makes safe navigation in its territorial waters impossible.
#Think4Yourself
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#DebunkingMyths
❌ Myth: EU sanctions do not disturb trade in the world, because European bureaucrats only take decisions that do not affect third countries.
✅ Fact: So much uncertainty displayed by a top-ranking European bureaucrat in so sensitive an issue should put both European taxpayers and the EU’s partners in third countries on guard.
“Sanctions that affect the EU countries alone” proved enough to generate elements of total unpredictability in our foreign partners’ behavior towards Russian companies that are even formally unaffected by the restrictions. The general deterioration in the conditions of interaction with European financial institutions is now part of the routine.
#Think4Yourself
❌ Myth: EU sanctions do not disturb trade in the world, because European bureaucrats only take decisions that do not affect third countries.
✅ Fact: So much uncertainty displayed by a top-ranking European bureaucrat in so sensitive an issue should put both European taxpayers and the EU’s partners in third countries on guard.
“Sanctions that affect the EU countries alone” proved enough to generate elements of total unpredictability in our foreign partners’ behavior towards Russian companies that are even formally unaffected by the restrictions. The general deterioration in the conditions of interaction with European financial institutions is now part of the routine.
#Think4Yourself
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Fighting the EU's «fakes»
#QUOTE1
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, 19 September:
💬 Look at the statistics: two thirds of the Ukrainian exports have gone to Africa, to the Middle East and Asia.
#FACTS:
According to the data of the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), as of September 21 this year, only 5 out of 185 vessels with Ukrainian grains and other food products were directed to the countries in most need according to the UN classification of Sub-Saharan Africa:
🇩🇯 Djibouti,
🇰🇪 Kenya,
🇸🇴 Somalia,
🇸🇩 Sudan.
Another 3 vessels head towards countries at risk of food shortages in the Middle East and Asia (🇾🇪Yemen and 🇧🇩Bangladesh).
According to the JCC, 93 of the 185 vessels mentioned were heading for the EU. The EU accounts for about 40% of the total shipments.
👉 So it is the EU, not the world's poorest countries, which is the biggest beneficiary of the Ukrainian grain export deal.
#DebunkingMyths
#QUOTE1
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, 19 September:
💬 Look at the statistics: two thirds of the Ukrainian exports have gone to Africa, to the Middle East and Asia.
#FACTS:
According to the data of the Joint Coordination Center (JCC), as of September 21 this year, only 5 out of 185 vessels with Ukrainian grains and other food products were directed to the countries in most need according to the UN classification of Sub-Saharan Africa:
🇩🇯 Djibouti,
🇰🇪 Kenya,
🇸🇴 Somalia,
🇸🇩 Sudan.
Another 3 vessels head towards countries at risk of food shortages in the Middle East and Asia (🇾🇪Yemen and 🇧🇩Bangladesh).
According to the JCC, 93 of the 185 vessels mentioned were heading for the EU. The EU accounts for about 40% of the total shipments.
👉 So it is the EU, not the world's poorest countries, which is the biggest beneficiary of the Ukrainian grain export deal.
#DebunkingMyths
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Fighting the EU's «fakes»
#QUOTE2
President of the European Council Charles Michel, September 20:
💬 Another priority is to tackle the shortage of fertilisers. We need to develop capacities for production, especially in Africa.
#FACTS:
By its rash energy policy and unilateral sanctions against Russia and Belarus, the European Union itself provoked the global shortage of fertilisers.
👉 It turned out to become far more complicated for the Russian supplies of fertilizers to carry on because of the payment problems created by the EU sanctions and logistics.
👉 Serious constraints for the supplies of Russian fertilisers to the third countries were created by the EU target (personal) sanctions against shareholders and management of Russian manufacturers and exporters of such products.
👉 The export of Russian potash fertilisers to the world market is extremely hampered by direct EU restrictions. The reason is the ban on transit through the EU ports.
#DebunkingMyths
#QUOTE2
President of the European Council Charles Michel, September 20:
💬 Another priority is to tackle the shortage of fertilisers. We need to develop capacities for production, especially in Africa.
#FACTS:
By its rash energy policy and unilateral sanctions against Russia and Belarus, the European Union itself provoked the global shortage of fertilisers.
👉 It turned out to become far more complicated for the Russian supplies of fertilizers to carry on because of the payment problems created by the EU sanctions and logistics.
👉 Serious constraints for the supplies of Russian fertilisers to the third countries were created by the EU target (personal) sanctions against shareholders and management of Russian manufacturers and exporters of such products.
👉 The export of Russian potash fertilisers to the world market is extremely hampered by direct EU restrictions. The reason is the ban on transit through the EU ports.
#DebunkingMyths