Such messages against the backdrop of the theme of global hunger are distributed by anonymous telegram channels controlled by the Federal security service (FSB).

Russian propagandists distributed a map with food risk zones developed by The Economist. Allegedly, according to them the population of Ukraine will be under the threat of starvation as in Ethiopia and Afghanistan, and the Ukrainian authorities, meanwhile, are exporting and selling everything. Like, the political elite will plunder grain, destroy Ukraine, cease business, leave people alone with all the problems, and go to the West.

In fact, The Economist used a food risk map to illustrate the article "How men with guns aggravate global hunger". The journalist believes that "Mr. Putin's senseless war" will increase hunger on a global scale. He writes that famine in Ethiopia and Afghanistan was caused by armed people, but this crisis did not affect the whole world. Putin is “powerful enough” to create conditions in which “millions of children worldwide will grow up to be less intelligent, and thus lead poorer and less productive lives”.

Russian propagandists have been writing about the fact that the Ukrainian government is about to leave or has already fled to Europe from the first day of a full-scale war. In this way, they want to intimidate Ukrainians and push them into thinking that Putin is their only support omitting the facts that Ukrainian farmers cannot work productively due to the constant shelling of the Russian army, that the Russians burned wheat fields and prevent Ukrainian ships from delivering grain to the countries that are on the point of facing famine.