PUTIN ACCUSED OF TRYING TO BRING FAMINE TO MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

Sun 22 May 2022:

According to a former German ambassador to Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin is intentionally trying to cause famine in the Middle East and Africa.

According to Rüdiger von Fritsch of the Tagesspiegel newspaper, the Kremlin’s purpose is to destabilize Europe through a massive immigrant influx.

“Putin’s idea is that after the collapse of grain supplies, starving people will flee from these regions and try to get to Europe, like the millions of Syrians who fled the horrors of war,” he said.

That is why Russia is preventing Ukraine from exporting grain and is bombing grain silos, von Fritsch said.

“With new refugee flows, he wants to destabilize Europe and build up political pressure so that Western states give up their tough stance against Russia,” von Fritsch explained, saying this is Putin’s “new hybrid warfare.”

Non-military measures such as cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns are part of this new strategy of waging war.

Ukraine is one of the world’s largest grain producers. However, due to the war, exports via its seaports have come to a halt.

Russia, according to the German government, is preventing Ukraine from shipping 20 million tons of grain, primarily to North Africa and Asia, with much of it passing through the port of Odessa.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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