USA (bbabo.net), - The US administration called the grain market global in response to criticism from Russia, which pointed out that Ukrainian cereals under the grain deal do not go to the poorest countries, but are delivered to the EU.

“One of the lines of criticism that has been voiced is that food is not being sent to the global South, to the countries most in need. And, I think, of course... The problem is this... These are global markets. So no matter where the food goes, where this particular basket of wheat goes, it increases the global supply and allows other people to buy other wheat, ”said James O 'Brien.

So it's kind of a misleading discussion," said a US State Department official.

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum on September 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the grain deal turned out to be "another impudent deception" - almost all the food exported from Ukraine went to the EU countries, and Russia and the poorest countries, "as people say, were simply thrown away" .

“And it's not about us. This is a deception of the international community, partners in Africa, in other countries that are in dire need of food. This is just a swindle, a boorish and impudent attitude towards those partners, for the sake of whom this was allegedly done. They just deceived me,” Putin said.

At a Friday meeting with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council, he added that “out of 87 ships with grain that left Ukrainian ports, 32 remained in Turkey, 3 were sent to South Africa, 3 to Israel, 7 to Egypt, 30 to to the European Union and only 2 - to the poorest countries under the UN food programs, these are Yemen and Djibouti.

“This is 60 thousand only 3%,” the president specified, referring to the volume of these grain supplies to developing countries.

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