Moscow’s climbdown comes two days after a large convoy of ships moved a record tonnage despite warnings

The Kremlin has said it will rejoin the UN-administered grain export corridor from Ukraine, after pulling out over the weekend after a drone attack on Russian warships in the port of Sevastopol.

Moscow’s humiliating climbdown came two days after a large convoy of ships moved a record amount of grain in defiance of Russia’s warnings that it would be unsafe without its participation, and after high-level diplomatic contacts between Turkey – one of the guarantors of the scheme with the UN – and Russia.

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