In a broad-ranging interview with Xinhua published today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov charged that with the insane sanctions regime it has imposed on Russia, the West is “ready to jeopardize the energy and food security of entire regions of the globe to satisfy its geopolitical ambitions.” There is no other explanation for the unrestrained anti-Russian sanctions which the West imposed at the very start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine on Feb. 24, Lavrov said. Moreover, he added, Western ruling circles “aren’t even embarrassed” by the fact that their sanctions are already hurting ordinary people in their own countries, producing declining economic trends in the U.S. and the EU. (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1811525/)
Lavrov expressed confidence that Russia will weather the domestic turbulence caused by sanctions and will be able to stabilize its economy through a number of measures. But, he emphasized, because Russia is also a responsible player on the international market, it continues to “scrupulously fulfill its obligations under international contracts on export deliveries of agricultural products, fertilizers, energy carriers and other critical products. We are deeply concerned about a possible food crisis provoked by the anti-Russian sanctions,” he said, and every effort is being made to ensure deliveries of essential goods, such as food, to Asian, African, Latin American and Middle Eastern countries to ensure their socioeconomic development. (emphasis added)
