Western businesses “shamelessly” profited off of the Black Sea grain initiative, the Russian leader said
President Vladimir Putin said there is no longer any use in continuing the Black Sea grain deal as it has failed to serve its original humanitarian purpose, in an article released ahead of the second Russia-Africa Summit and Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg.
Russia initially agreed to the so-called “grain deal” only because its purported goal was to ensure global food security and reduce the threat of hunger in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Putin wrote in the article penned for major African media and shared by the Kremlin early Monday morning.
“This ‘deal,’ however, while it was publicly advertised by the West as a gesture of goodwill that benefited Africa, has in fact been shamelessly used solely for the enrichment of large US and European businesses that exported and resold grain from Ukraine,”…