Putin is probably correct.
Europeans are among the most duplicitous people on the face of the earth.
putin has been lying through his teeth since last december
first that “I won’t invade Ukraine, you are just making up stories”
then “NATO expansion is the problem” - and that bluff was called when Ukraine said it would agree not to join NATO.
then “biolabs” - which turned out to be medical labs.
Then “nazis in the Ukraine” - which went away and now “nazi” in Putinist parliance means “does not support being ruled from Moscow”
This latest one should be treated as a lie unless the international food agency tells us otherwise