Ukraine’s Foreign Minister urged world community not to allow Russia to disrupt grain corridor across Black Sea

EUROPEAN PRAVDA – THURSDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2022, 20:24

Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, has called on the international community not to allow Russia to disrupt the grain corridor across the Black Sea after signals from Moscow about its intentions to withdraw from the agreement.

Source: European Pravda, citing Kuleba

Quote by Kuleba: "Russia is doing exactly what we warned [everyone of]: renewing hunger games and threatening the Black Sea Grain Initiative. I want every African, Asian, Middle Eastern family to know: Ukraine puts forward no additional demands; we want the corridor to keep working. The time to protect the Black Sea grain corridor is now. I urge all states and organisations to make it clear to Moscow: blackmail must stop and Russia is not allowed to put millions of people at risk. My call especially concerns the states, which rely on Ukraine’s grain exports," Dmytro Kuleba stressed.

The time to protect the Black Sea grain corridor is now. I urge all states and organizations to make it clear to Moscow: blackmail must stop and Russia is not allowed to put millions of people at risk. My call is especially on states which rely on Ukraine’s grain exports 2/2

— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) October 13, 2022

According to a statement by the a Russian permanent representative to the UN in Geneva on 13 October, the Russian Federation sent the UN a list of demands; if these are not met, Russia threatened to withdraw from the agreement on grain exports from the Black Sea, which expires in November. The Russian diplomat did not specify what kind of demands Russia had made, refusing to provide a copy of a letter that he brought with him. 

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