Russia has declared the grain agreement to be over for the time being – triggering outraged reactions.
Moscow’s failure to extend the agreement shows “that Russia does not feel responsible for good coexistence in the world,” said the Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) in Brussels. Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Bärbock (Greens) also strongly condemned the Russian rejection. In his brutal war of aggression against Ukraine, Putin is “again using hunger as a weapon against the whole world,” she says in New York.
US Secretary of State Antony Blink speaks of an “unscrupulous” approach. Moscow’s decision to use “food as weapons” will make it more difficult to get food to places that need it badly and lead to higher prices. EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen also “strongly” condemned Russia’s “cynical” actions.