Grain ships authorised to leave Ukraine’s ports under international accord; Zelenskiy says fighting in Donbas has been ‘hell’
Ukraine has called for the deal that relaxes Russia’s blockade of its Black Sea grain exports to be extended to include other products, such as metals, the Financial Times has reported.
“This agreement is about logistics, about the movement of vessels through the Black Sea,” Ukraine’s deputy economy minister Taras Kachka told FT. “What’s the difference between grain and iron ore?”
“There is no condition, even hypothetically, under which any Russian strike on Ukraine becomes justified. Aggression against our state is unprovoked, invasive and terrorist.
If someone makes a report in which the victim and the aggressor are supposedly equal in some way … then this cannot be tolerated.”
