Ukraine responded to Putin’s threats regarding the “grain agreement”

UkrAgroConsult

The words of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin regarding the restriction of the export of grain from Ukraine are groundless, but absolutely predictable. The Russian authorities are once again trying to remove sanctions with their blackmail. Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the President’s Office, told about it.

“Energy, nuclear, migration, grain, Zaporizhzhya-atomic and any other formats of direct blackmail periodically appear in the public rhetoric of the first persons of the Russian Federation, when something is clearly not going according to plan and it is necessary to stop Ukraine and the international community out of fear. Therefore, the current statements about the termination of the “grain agreement” are completely groundless and at the same time completely predictable. Because there is no objective basis for such actions or statements at all,” Podolyak noted.

He emphasized that Ukraine, like mediators Turkey and the UN, strictly adheres to the obligations they undertook as part of the “grain initiative”.

“Statements that Russia cannot export its goods look quite strange, considering that it is the Russian fleet that controls the waters of the Black Sea. That is, what exactly can prevent the Russians from exporting grain and fulfilling their obligations except the Russians themselves? Rhetorical question,” Podolyak noted.

In his opinion, today Russia is nervously trying to “find” a new excuse for another information campaign calling for the lifting of sanctions, putting pressure, first of all, on the UN and recipient countries to take at least a slightly more “pro-Russian position”.

“Meanwhile, every time these completely predictable attempts/statements look more than dubious: Europe and the United States have already repeatedly emphasized that the sanctions do not apply to specific food items. This is firstly. And secondly, the recipient countries have no questions to Ukraine, which fulfills its agreements as much as possible, but they have questions to Russia, which under any pretext sabotages supplies,” Podolyak concluded.

We will remind you that today, during a speech at the Eastern Economic Forum, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin threatened to limit the export of grain from Ukraine, allegedly due to the fact that almost all grain from Ukraine went not to the poorest countries, but to the European Union, and said that he plans to discuss this with the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Tayyip Erdogan.

However, earlier, Russia’s permanent representative to the UN, Vasyl Nebenzia, also threatened to disrupt the “grain agreement”, stating that the Russian Federation was unable to export a single ship with food within the framework of this agreement.

This despite the fact that their food is not subject to sanctions and no one has blocked their ports.

We will remind that on July 22, an agreement on the “grain corridor” was signed in Istanbul, where Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN agreed to unblock the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.

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