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Putin warns sanctions on Russia could send global food prices soaring

  • 10 Mar 2022
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Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the Russian government via teleconference in Moscow on Thursday. AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Western sanctions on Moscow for its actions in Ukraine could send global food prices soaring, as Russia was one of the world's main producers of fertiliser, which is essential to global supply chains.

"Russia and Belarus are some of the biggest suppliers of mineral fertilisers. If they continue to create problems for the financing and logistics of the delivery of our goods, then prices will rise and this will affect the final product, food products," Putin said at a televised government meeting.

Agence France-Presse


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