🎙 Excerpt from statement by Russia's Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at a UNSC Briefing on Hunger and Conflict 💬 A significant factor destabilising the global food market – one that our Western colleagues prefer to gloss over – is the imposition of illegal unilateral restrictive measures that circumvent the Security Council [...] Against this backdrop, attempts to hold Russia responsible for volatility in global food prices are wholly untenable. It is even more strange to hear such accusations now, when the Kiev regime is stepping up drone attacks against civilian vessels in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, using unmanned systems and intelligence provided by NATO and EU countries. In July alone, more than one hundred such attacks were recorded against commercial vessels carrying Russian agricultural products. These strikes by the Ukrainian troops make no military sense and violate international law. They have already caused delays in supplies of grain, oilseeds and feed crops to international importers [...] Since our Western colleagues are so enthusiastically championing the protection of global trade routes, they should rein in their protégés in Kiev, who are adding fuel to the fire of the food crisis. Read in full