Putin says the West is to is to blame for soaring global food prices and that Russia is not blocking Ukrainian grain exports

Putin said that Moscow isn't preventing Ukraine's grain exports from moving and that global food prices are going up because of sanctions.

Putin said that they don't prevent the export of Ukrainian grain. The safety of shipping grain out of there is guaranteed because the Ukrainian military has mined the approaches to their ports.

The Russian leader believes that the food crisis isn't caused by Russia but by the West.

The world is facing an unprecedented hunger and food crisis, according to the UN.

The UN's deputy secretary-general said in a June 20 statement that the conflict in Ukraine was threatening global hunger on an unprecedented scale.

Out of the entire world, Ukraine's five million tons of wheat stuck in the country is a relatively small amount.

He said that the quantity did not affect the world markets.

Roughly 20% of global wheat sales are accounted for by Russia.