It emphasizes that Ukraine has never put forward additional demands for the grain agreement to continue. “On the contrary, Russia systematically put obstacles in the way of the operation of the agreement,” says the Ukrainian Embassy in Latvia.
Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov announced on Monday that Russia is withdrawing from the international agreement that allows grain exports from Ukraine via the Black Sea. The negotiations on the grain deal have actually been terminated, it has been suspended, Peskov said.
It is true, he added, that “Russia will return to the “grain deal” without delay, as soon as the agreements related to it are fulfilled.”
On Monday, Russia informed Turkey and Ukraine, as well as the UN Secretariat, about their objections to the extension of the “grain deal”, the press secretary of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova told the Russian propaganda media “RIA Novosti”.
Ukraine and Russia, through Turkey, signed an agreement with the UN on July 22 of last year on the resumption of the export of Ukrainian agricultural goods to the Black Sea, which had been interrupted when Russia launched its repeated invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
The agreement has allowed Ukraine to ship more than 32 million tons of grain past Russian warships in the Black Sea. Much of this grain ended up in developing countries in Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere. If exports were to be blocked again, food prices could rise even further.
2023-07-20 06:47:00
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