Russia's statements about the resumption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the lifting of sanctions are manipulations and do not correspond to reality. This was stated by the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Heorhiy Tikhyi during a briefing, reports UNN.
This is not true. There is no resumption of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. It is incorrect to talk about it in this way
In addition, he added that Ukraine and the United States did not agree to lift any sanctions on Russia.
Tikhyi stressed that the new agreements between Ukraine and the United States do not mention inspections of ships or other conditions characteristic of the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
There is no such thing, we have not discussed it, no one has agreed on anything like that. Why? Because, again, you know that Ukraine has been providing maritime transit itself for quite a long time. Thanks to the fact that the Naval Forces and other components of the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine were able to drive the Russian fleet away from our commercial routes, Ukraine has long been providing shipping itself
Reminder
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the US and Russia discussed, in particular, the issue of safe navigation in the Black Sea at the talks. According to him, Moscow supports the resumption of the Black Sea Initiative in a form that will be "more acceptable" to all parties.