Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov has said that the diplomatic mission has sent a note to Ukraine through diplomatic channels with Moscow’s position on the grain deal. Russia insists that the implementation of the deal should be stopped from tomorrow, 18 July, due to the failure to meet its conditions.
The ambassador’s commentary specifies that “due to the efforts of the West, the deal has turned into a purely commercial project and has actually lost its original humanitarian function”. The Russian side argues that “the collective West was not going to fulfil its part of obligations concerning the observance of Russian interests” under the grain deal.
“Thus, all key parameters and conditions of the deal were completely purposefully and systematically not observed by the other parties. The termination of the initiative lies entirely on their conscience,” the embassy said in a press release.
Gryzlov noted that Russia had repeatedly pointed out that the deal had lost its humanitarian function and that only 3 per cent of the grain exported from Ukraine went to the poorest countries, while most of it settled “in well-fed and well-off Europe”.
We shall remind you that earlier the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the termination of the grain deal. Russia has withdrawn guarantees for the safety of navigation and cancelled the humanitarian maritime corridor in the north-western part of the Black Sea.
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