Russia complains about “problems with exports” but found 1 million tons of grain for African countries

Russia plans to send a total of 1 million tons of grain to Turkey for further processing and shipment to African countries.

As a result of the agreements reached at the meeting between Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, Russia will send 1 million tons of grain to Turkey for poor countries, reports Sabah.

The Russians plan to send 40 ships to Turkey. Each of them will deliver 25 thousand tons of grain.

According to the publication, in the coming days ships will start loading in the ports of Tuapse and Novorossiysk. After the ships reach Turkey, the grain will be processed at private flour mills.

The processed grain is planned to be sent to Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea and the Central African Republic. Priority will be given to countries that do not have grain processing facilities. The possibility of supplying flour to Chad, Libya, Djibouti, Yemen and Ethiopia is also being considered.

What does such Russian “generosity” mean?

The next thing is that the statements of Russian politicians about the “suppression” of the grain exports of the terrorist country by Western sanctions have always been manipulative.

We will remind you that one of the reasons for Russia’s exit from the Grain Agreement was the negative impact of EU and US sanctions on its export of grain crops. But Western countries did not implement a direct embargo on Russian grain.

First, Russia endangered food security in the world just by withdrawing from the Black Sea Initiative. Shipments of grain from Ukrainian seaports within the framework of the agreement alleviated the humanitarian crisis, because the supply of grain to world markets reduces its prices. Russia’s plans are quite prosaic: to oust Ukraine from the list of world grain exporters and increase its share in it in order to sell its grain at a higher price. You should not believe in the humanity of a country that has started more than one brutal war.

Secondly, the export of Russian wheat is currently a record. In order not to contradict its own “complaints” about the reduction in supplies, the Russian Federation stopped exchanging trade data with other countries.

Thirdly, the growth of exports of Russian agricultural products was significantly affected by numerous Ukrainian thefts. The Russian Federation grabs other people’s property in the occupied territories of Ukraine, and grain is no exception. It is transported to third countries through the Crimea, or sent to Russian ports to be exported as “own”. Russians would not be Russians if, in addition to everything else, they did not steal other people’s food and give it to poor countries under the guise of humanitarian aid “from the heart.”