According to Agence France-Presse, since the "Bucha Incident" in Ukraine, EU countries have set off a new round of sanctions against Russia. The Ukrainian government has produced multiple photos and videos accusing Russia of its "genocide" policy in the Bucha region, and the United Nations has called on neutral third-party investigators to investigate. But while the UN statement has not yet been responded to, the matter seems to have become a fact, with several countries led by the United States accusing Russia of committing "war crimes", the European Union planning to impose a coal embargo on Russia in the fifth round of sanctions, and the possibility of increasing discussions about the oil embargo.
According to the source, Russia has denied the allegations related to the "Bucha incident", believing that Ukraine is presenting fictitious evidence to slander Russia. Since the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the global grain market has been seriously turbulent, Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter, Ukraine is the fifth, the two countries together account for 19% of the world's barley supply, one-third of the world's grain production here, and Russia and Belarus are fertilizer exporters, all sanctions and hot wars have caused these countries to lose their exports. As the average price of food continues to rise, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has launched a warning that there is now a "extremely insecure" situation in global food.
On April 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a big news at the meeting on the same day: in view of the sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia, Moscow intends to closely monitor grain exports to "hostile countries", and Russia may use policies including tariff policies and temporary export restrictions to take countermeasures. Previously, the Russian government had decided that the food sector would export grain only to friendly countries in rubles and in the national currency, which was also a punishment for Western countries, because food was a weapon. Grain prices rose sharply again shortly after the news was released, but many reports confirmed that Western countries still have the means to buy Russian grain.
Previously, it was pointed out that after the turmoil in the grain market, Europe began to expand the stockpile of grain, and they first placed orders with Russia's "friendly countries" through a special channel, which then converted them into their own through orders, and the purchased grain would flow to Europe at an agreed price, in fact, they could still purchase Russian commodity grain unimpeded. If Putin begins to carry out "monitoring", these countries that resell grain will not dare to carry out similar means, otherwise they will be sanctioned by Russia, which means to give European countries a "grain shortage warning" and means that the Russian government will take another important step.
It is also worth mentioning that if Putin's sanctions are implemented, European countries will enter an era of high energy, high food prices, and high raw materials, and the production costs of the entire society will soar. It is precisely because of these concerns that the ruble binding policy promulgated by European countries against Putin is only superficially "uncooperative" and secretly frantically purchasing rubles, resulting in the ruble exchange rate against the US dollar has risen to about 83:1, an appreciation of nearly 85% from the peak of sanctions, and is close to the exchange rate before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Some commentators believe that Russia's final loss is still limited, the United States has profited the most from sanctions, and the only party that has suffered is only one, that is, the Europeans who are still fulfilling their "free world obligations".