NNA - Sanctions imposed on Russian and Belarusian fertilizer producers are akin to weapons of mass destruction in the scale of the damage they will likely cause over the next few years, the founder of chemical giant EuroChem has claimed.

“They hit innocent people the worst. I have no doubt that billions of people will feel its effects,” Andrey Melnichenko said in an interview with Swiss newspaper Die Weltwoche on Thursday.

He estimates that EuroChem products helped feed almost 274 million people. With its fertilizers  not produced and sold due to sanctions, the effect would be far worse than what is happening now over the cut in grain exports from Ukraine, he said. --- RT

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