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Reports that Russia is stealing grain from Ukraine for resale are “credible,” Antony Blinken said at a conference of the US Department of Diplomacy on food security issues in connection with the war in Ukraine. “The US Secretary of State, according to AFP, also pointed out that Moscow is blocking Ukraine from exporting its own grain. According to Blinken, the war has a” devastating effect on global food security “because Ukraine is one of the world’s cereals. The New York Times reported on Monday that a number of cargo vessels had left Russia-controlled Ukrainian ports, while US officials said they were carrying “stolen Ukrainian grain” ships. Africa, because many of them are dependent on grain imports and already face significantly limited supplies “The Russian naval blockade in the Black Sea is now preventing Ukrainian grain from being transported to the Black Sea port of Odessa in an effort to” blackmail “the world in support of the Moscow-led war in Ukraine. “There are some 20 million tons of wheat stranded in forces near Odessa, as well as ships literally filled with grain stranded in the port of Odessa because of this Russian blockade,” Blinken said. at the same time, it is a deliberate strategy by Russian President Vladimir Putin to force the rest of the world to “retreat” and lift sanctions against Russia. “In other words, quite simply, it’s blackmail,” the US Secretary of State concluded, according to AFP. (TASR, AFP)