MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. The West needs to stop playing the food card on the international stage, spreading false information and burying the grain deal, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

"It’s time to stop playing the food card. The lion’s share of grain from Ukraine goes to the EU for animal feed at dumping prices, not to the poorest countries," the ministry said.

"Hurdles are openly raised for Russian agricultural exports, no matter how much the Europeans and the Americans, who are used to saying falsehoods, try to convince everybody of the opposite. The West is shamelessly burying the humanitarian ‘package’ of the UN secretary general," the ministry said.