On the eve, it became known that after an attack on military vessels in Sevastopol, Russia suspended participation in the intermediary of the UN transaction on the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian ports. As the reason for their refusal to observe an agreement on the export of export grain from Ukraine to other countries of Russia, the authorities indicated that the Ukrainian military, with the help of drones in the morning of October 29, attacked the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, this is a sufficient occasion to abandon the grain agreement of a three -month ago aimed at reducing the global grain deficiency.
The Embassy of Ukraine in Azerbaijan commented on the “exit” of the Russian Federation from the grain agreement.
“On July 22, under the auspices of the UN in Istanbul, Ukraine, Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on the resumption of the safe export of Ukrainian grains by the Black Sea. This document provides for the creation of a humanitarian corridor to transport Ukrainian agricultural products from three Ukrainian ports, which, in turn, is in turn. It was supposed to help prevent a global food crisis. However, on October 29, Russia unilaterally announced the “exit” from the grain agreement, officially hiding behind the explosions that occurred on the same day in the temporarily occupied Crimea, ”the embassy comments published on the Facebook page said .
The Ukrainian diplomatic notification notes that “the Kremlin continues to blackmail the whole world of nuclear, energy, this time – food threats, which can have catastrophic consequences for the world: from September to this day there are already 176 ships in the grain corridor that cannot Pass along its route. Thus, in the Kremlin in September, it was decided to block Ukrainian food exports, otherwise such a queue from the courts would not have formed. And the explosions in Crimea on October 29 are just the next banal excuse for the Kremlin of their traditional policy not to fulfill the assumes. obligations “.
In addition, the embassy indicates, “the most bad consequences of such conscious actions by Russia will be for the countries of Africa and Asia, in particular Turkey, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Yemen, etc. The breakdown of Ukrainian export means means. For these countries, at least a painful increase in food prices, at a maximum social and political destabilization. “