The Kremlin’s comments came after Ukraine’s leader called for the shipments to continue despite Russia’s withdrawal from a landmark grain deal.
The Kremlin warned Ukraine on Tuesday against trying to export its grain across the Black Sea, after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called for international support to continue the shipments despite Russia’s withdrawal from a landmark wartime agreement.
The warning came a day after Russia, whose navy exercises a de facto blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, unilaterally terminated a year-old agreement brokered by Turkey and the United Nations under which Ukraine had been able to ship its grain via sea to Istanbul and beyond. That decision put pressure on global grain markets and also raised fears that hunger in some countries in Africa and the Middle East could grow more serious.
