The Kremlin conveyed on Saturday it was very strict about its current situations for coming back to the Black Sea grain deal which it stopped running in July. Specifically, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia required its state agricultural bank – and not a subsidiary of the bank, as appealed by the United Nations – to be collaborating to the international SWIFT bank payments system.
“All our situations are on the spot recognized. They require no explanation, they are accurately solid and all this is perfectly achievable,” Peskov said. “Therefore Russia maintains its responsible, clear and consistent position, which has been repeatedly voiced by the president.” The Black Sea deal was arranged by Turkey and the United Nations in July 2022 to give potential to Ukraine to export grain by sea inspite of the war crisis and help relax global food destruction.
It was along with an agreement to make easier the Russia’s own exports of food and fertiliser, which Moscow says has not been completed. Moscow’s rigid restatement of its status came few days after President Vladimir Putin saw his Turkish partner Tayyip Erdogan and conversed deeply about the grain problem. Russia seems to have taken power from Erdogan’s statement at that meeting that Ukraine should “soften its approaches” in conversations over doing again the deal.