Russia helping Venezuela with wheat supplies: Lavrov

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that Russia was helping Venezuela with supplies of wheat, but did not elaborate.

He made the comment at a joint news conference with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, who was visiting Moscow.

Russia has supplied 64,100 tonnes of wheat to Venezuela so far in the 2018/19 marketing season, data from Russia’s SovEcon agriculture consultancy showed on Feb. 18.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Polina Ivanova and Andrew Osborn, writing by Maria Tsvetkova, editing by Susan Fenton)