US President Joe Biden on Saturday called Russia’s decision to suspend the agreement on grain exports from Ukrainian ports scandalous, AFP and Agerpres report.

“It’s just scandalous. They have no reason to do that,” he told reporters after early voting in the midterm elections in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware.

Also, the spokesman of the National Security Council of the White House stated that Russia uses food as a weapon.

“Russia is once again trying to use a war it started as an excuse to use food as a weapon, directly affecting needy countries and food prices around the world and exacerbating already serious humanitarian crises and food insecurity,” said Adrienne Watson in the communiqué. .

Moscow announced on Saturday that it was suspending its participation in the deal following a drone attack early Saturday against the Russian Black Sea Fleet stationed in Sevastopol Bay on Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula, which is annexed by Russia.