German Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned of the danger of a “severe food crisis, especially in the Global South” as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “To be clear, the responsibility for this lies solely with Russia,” he told a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague on Thursday. Scholz pointed out that Russia was currently blocking trade routes for global grain exports from Ukraine, a country known called the “Breadbasket of Europe.” He urged the world to “not stand idly by and let the world’s poorest pay the price for Russian aggression.”