“Together with the trade ministry and the Federal Antimonopoly Service we are working on extending the existing set of measures on fertilizers for another six months, up to November inclusive,” Patrushev said. Russia is one of the top producers of potash, phosphate and nitrogen-containing fertilizers worldwide.
“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 […]
