Russia considers the continuation of the grain agreement impractical and asks to remove the sanctions

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of russian federation considers the continuation of the Istanbul Agreements “impractical” if sanctions affecting the export of agricultural products are not removed from the terrorist country.

Moscow is dissatisfied with the “grain agreement” and considers it unfair due to sanctions on russian exports of agricultural products. This was stated by Deputy Foreign Minister of russian federation Sergey Vershinin in an interview with rosZMI.

“Without tangible results regarding the implementation of the russia-UN Memorandum, primarily regarding the actual lifting of sanctions restrictions on russian agricultural exports, the concept of the Istanbul “package” agreements and a simple continuation of the Ukrainian document is impractical,” commented a russian official.

According to him, the blocking of payment, logistics and insurance systems of russian federation as part of the sanctions is an “obstacle” to the export of grain and fertilizers of the terrorist country.

Vershinin also complained about the lack of ammonia transshipment through the Tolyatti-Odesa pipeline, which “should have resumed with the launch of the Black Sea Initiative.” The official stated that allegedly “the ammonia pipeline, which pumps about 2.5 million tons of raw materials per year, enough to produce 7 million tons of fertilizers to feed 200 million people, is idle only and exclusively because of Kyiv’s position.”