![]() Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky told reporters that talks were taking place to get the deal extended next month. Russia has said it has committed to the initiative only until May 18, and complained that a separate deal meant to ease its own agricultural and fertiliser exports – which are not covered by Western sanctions against Moscow – has not been upheld. The deal was designed to alleviate a global food crisis, as well as to support Ukraine – whose economy has relied heavily on agricultural exports. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, reached with UN and Turkish mediation last July, unblocked three Ukrainian Black Sea ports five months after Russia’s invasion. The Joint Coordination Centre in Istanbul that oversees operations said that “inspections are already at work.” Vessels wait for inspection under the United Nation’s Black Sea Grain Initiative in the southern anchorage of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov wrote on Facebook that “ship inspections are being resumed, despite the RF’s attempts to disrupt the agreement”. Kyiv and its allies blamed the latest halt to ship inspections in the Bosphorus this week on Moscow, which, in turn, blamed Ukraine and the United Nations. Inspections of ships carrying Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea have resumed under a UN-brokered deal but Kyiv struggles to secure an extension of the agreement, as well as facing a widening import ban in Eastern Europe.īulgaria became the fourth European Union member state in the region to block Ukrainian grain imports on Wednesday, hoping to protect local farmers following an influx of cheaper supplies since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year.īut there was some relief for Kyiv as Romania, a key trade partner, stopped short of banning imports, even as it tightened controls on the transit of Ukrainian grain. ![]()
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