Russia and Ukraine signed a landmark deal on Friday to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports.
The accord crowned two months of talks brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, a NATO member that has good relations with both Russia and Ukraine and controls the straits leading into the Black Sea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy doused hopes that the accord might nudge the conflict nearer a resolution, signaling in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that Kyiv had little appetite for an early ceasefire. “Russia has taken on the obligations that are clearly spelled out in this document. We will not take advantage of the fact that the ports will be cleared and opened,” Shoigu said on the Rossiya-24 state TV channel.
The overall objective is to help avert famine among tens of millions of people in poorer nations by injecting more wheat, sunflower oil, fertilizer and other products into world markets including for humanitarian needs, partly at lower prices.Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said he hoped the accord offered an opportunity to resolve the wider conflict.
“Society believes that all the territories must be liberated first, and then we can negotiate about what to do and how we could live in the centuries ahead,” he said.
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