Russia’s Defense Ministry said a Russian warship Vasily Bykov fired warning shots and rammed the Palau-flagged cargo ship Sukru Okan in the Black Sea. The ministry said its warship fired warning shots when the dry cargo ship failed to respond to a request to stop for inspection on Sunday. “Warning shots were fired from automatic…
The accord with Russia and Ukraine was struck by the United Nations and Turkey in July — and was renewed for another 120 days in November — to deal with a global food crisis that could lead to Russia’s February 24, 2022, invasion of Ukraine. And it was partly fuel. Black Sea blockade. Russia had…
A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that talks would begin in a week on expanding a UN-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blocked by Russia. Last July the Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, allowed grain exports from three Ukrainian ports. The agreement was…
“Without concrete results on the implementation of the Russia-UN memorandum, above all on the actual removal of sanctions on Russian agricultural exports … the extension of the Ukrainian document is unjustified,” he said. Russia’s agricultural exports have not been explicitly targeted by Western sanctions, but Moscow says blockades on its payments, logistics and insurance industry…