Russia sharply changes its position on the export of Ukrainian grain
Europe has exhausted all its possibilities to damage the Russian economy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about this today in an interview with RT, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“About the next package of sanctions. What he really is? Sanctions or exemptions from sanctions? Both. They have already exhausted all possible areas where they were ready to cause harm to us, and now they are forced to think about what they have done and how it affects them. Right now. Therefore, they made clarifications to allow servicing Russian food exports,” Lavrov said.
Yesterday, the European Union announced that it would unfreeze some assets of Russian banks in order to prevent problems with food supplies.
“For many months they have been telling us that we are to blame for this food crisis, and that food, like fertilizers, is not subject to sanctions. Therefore, Russia, let’s not dodge, but trade. Nobody bothers you.
We explained for many months that, yes, food and fertilizers themselves are not subject to sanctions, but freight, insurance, visits by our ships to foreign ports, visits to our ports by foreign ships in order to pick up cargo - all of this was included in the first same packages. Therefore, when they lie to our eyes, it is unscrupulous,” the minister noted.
According to him, Russia insisted on including a clause on its own grain in the Istanbul agreements on the export of Ukrainian grain.
“The Ukrainians categorically refused. The UN delegation simply remained silent bashfully. Yesterday we sent a signal to Mr. UN Secretary General and said - how can this be, this is your initiative, well, let’s decide now with the Ukrainian one, and then with the Russian one,” Lavrov said.
Political scientist Sergei Markov regarded this as a sensation.
“Possible sensation. Russia may have sharply changed its position on the export of Ukrainian grain. If previously Russia’s main demand was to check ships so that they would not carry NATO weapons, now Russia has added that the Istanbul agreements should include a clause on the freedom to export Russian grain.
Sergei Lavrov just stated this in a long interview with the Russian media. If this is a new demand from Russia, then this greatly changes the entire negotiation process on the export of Ukrainian grain,” Markov wrote in his TG channel.
Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov believes that the West's adjustment of its sanctions does not mean a change in its policy.
“Both the US and the EU are beginning to adjust anti-Russian sanctions taking into account their needs and needs. This does not change the general course of the collective West towards a sanctions war against Russia and does not mean that they “realized” something and “drew conclusions.” They made point conclusions - nothing more. Therefore, we should not draw major conclusions from this correction,” he wrote.
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