Kyiv officials accused Russia on Monday of sabotaging a deal allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported to international markets, saying that the agreement was under threat of “shutdown.”
MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Echoing the complaint, Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, tweeted that “more than 50 ships” were waiting for approval to proceed to Ukrainian ports “to load grain that will feed those who need it.”
Under the terms of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the United Nations last summer, Russia is supposed to allow free passage for ships carrying grain from three Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, and then traveling onward through the Bosporus.
“As a result, for the second time in nine months of operation of the Grain Initiative, an inspection plan has not been drawn up, and not a single vessel has been inspected,” the statement said. “This threatens the functioning of the Grain Initiative.”In a separate tweet, Brink highlighted a shipment of Ukrainian grain to Yemen last month that she said would “feed 4 million people,” demonstrating the ability of Ukrainian farmers to “feed the world.
But at a meeting with African leaders in Moscow last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Russia was fulfilling its obligations but warned that it was prepared to cancel the agreement if its requirements are not met.
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