US seeks alternative grain broker

The United States condemned Russia’s continued attacks on Ukraine’s grain infrastructure and announced that it was trying to find alternative options for Ukraine to export grain.

“The United States urges Russia to immediately return to the Black Sea Grain Corridor agreement,” said Vedant Patel, deputy spokesman for the US State Department, referring to the Black Sea Grain Corridor agreement.

Russia withdrew from the agreement on July 17.

Patel said the United States is trying to “find ways and corridors through which it can continue to send grain where it needs to go,” adding that he sees no sign from the Russian side that it wants to return to the deal.

After refusing to extend the Black Sea grain corridor deal brokered by the United Nations (UN) and Turkey, Russia is launching attacks on agriculture and port infrastructure in Ukraine, one of the world’s biggest grain exporters. The attacks also included the Danubian ports of Reni and Izmail.

Before Russia withdrew from the grain corridor agreement, the Danube ports accounted for around a quarter of Ukraine’s grain exports. The grain was loaded onto barges, transferred downstream through the territorial waters of Romania, a member of the European Union (EU) and NATO, and then transferred to the Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta, from where it was shipped. shipped in ships.

Ukrainian officials said yesterday’s attacks damaged granaries in the Danube port of Reni, a vital route for food exports. (Reuters)