On 17 July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov announced that the Russian Federation had withdrawn from the Black Sea Grain Initiative; on the same day, the Russian foreign ministry also conveyed this decision to Turkey, Ukraine and the UN Secretariat. By refusing to extend the agreement, Russia revoked its security guarantees for the transit of ships carrying Ukrainian food from three ports on the Black Sea through the so-called safe corridor. …read more
Source:: Centre for Eastern Studies (Poland)
