Russia hopes to ship blocked fertilizers from EU ports

The president of the terrorist country of russian federation, putin, made a statement that russian officials will work on unblocking russian fertilizers stuck in European ports.

At a meeting with russian businessman Dmitry Mazepin, putin said that russia is ready to increase the export of fertilizers.

“The main problem was probably that quite a lot of fertilizer was stuck in European ports,” Mazepin said during the meeting.

According to him, 262,000 tons of Uralhim fertilizers have been frozen in the ports of Estonia, Latvia, Belgium and the Netherlands. Other producers, Akron and Eurochem, did not ship 52,000 tons and almost 100,000 tons of their fertilizers from EU ports, respectively.

The cargo is blocked due to EU sanctions against the former owners of the companies, including Mazepin. On November 12, “Uralchim” announced that it had agreed with the Netherlands, Estonia and Belgium on the free shipment of fertilizers to African countries.

Mazepin also appealed to putin for further assistance in resuming the export of russian ammonia through the pipeline that runs from russia through Ukraine to the Black Sea.

Exports of ammonia, which is used in fertilizer production, were not part of last week’s renewal of the “grain deal”, although the UN was optimistic that russia and Ukraine could agree on the terms of the pipeline.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in September that he would support the resumption of ammonia exports through Ukraine only if moscow returned prisoners of war, a possibility the kremlin rejected.