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Moscow slams Western hypocrisy over Ukrainian grain
Not a single ship with Ukrainian grain has reached starving African or Asian countries, the Russian foreign ministry said
Russia's Foreign Ministry has expressed doubt about the sincerity of Western countries' global food security concerns, noting that grain-loaded ships from Ukrainian Black Sea ports are mostly heading to the West, rather than to starving African or Asian countries.
Speaking at a press briefing on Thursday, Ivan Nechaev, the deputy director of the ministry's information and press department, said that "so far not a single ship with grain has reached the shores of the starving countries of Africa or South Asia."
"They go mainly to Western ports, and the range of exported goods is mainly not wheat, but corn grain and sunflower oil, which casts doubt on the sincerity of these voices in the West that world food security depends on the 'grain deal'," Nechaev said, referring to the recent deal between Moscow and Kiev which allowed the resumption of grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
Prior to the deal, Kiev and its Western supporters were accusing Moscow of deliberately preventing the food shipments and in this way threatening global food security. Moscow repeatedly denied those claims, saying that Ukraine had made the shipments impossible by laying naval mines in the waterways around the ports.
The foreign ministry spokesman also touched on the situation with the Sierra Leone-flagged freighter Razoni, which sailed out of Odessa on August 1 carrying 26,000 metric tons of chicken feed destined for Lebanon. The ship was turned back from Beirut on Monday, after the Lebanese buyer refused to accept the shipment, on the grounds of it being several months too late.
"As it turned out, there was not the wheat on board that the Lebanese needed, but corn, fodder corn," Nechaev said.
Nechaev's remarks about the destinations of Ukrainian grain echo a recent article by New York Times. On Tuesday, the outlet noted that since the Istanbul deal took effect on August 1, none of ten ships which have left the Ukrainian ports, were bound for Yemen, Somalia, or other countries facing "catastrophic levels of hunger."
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told his counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi of Botswana on Monday that Ukraine was committed to remaining "a reliable food exporter."
Stressing that Russia is "committed to its obligations and is looking forward to effective fulfillment of the Istanbul deal," Nechaev noted that the deal includes agreements not only on the export of grain from the Ukrainian ports, but also on the normalization of Russian food exports to the world market.
While implementation of one part of the deal has been ongoing for a week and a half now, the other element is yet to be fulfilled, Nechaev said, expressing hope that the Western countries will "create the necessary conditions" for access of Russian fertilizers and food to the global markets.
"Ukrainian-destroyed grain storage in Sievierodonetsk region.
Western media don't report Ukraine's crimes, instead fabricating stories about Russia...
Ukraine's war crimes are unending."@EvaKBartlett ON THE GROUND. pic.twitter.com/jbyGYMOH1p
— vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) August 14, 2022
Snubbed Ukrainian grain heading to Russia-friendly Syria – Reuters
The first vessel to raise anchor after the grain deal was struck has had to change course after a Lebanese buyer rejected the shipment
The first grain ship to leave Ukraine since an internationally brokered deal to resume exports is approaching the Syrian port of Tartus after failing to offload its cargo in Lebanon, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing two shipping sources.
Exports from Ukraine had been disrupted for months after Russia launched a military operation in the neighboring country.
The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel Razoni left Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa on August 1, carrying 26,000 tons of corn. According to the tracking website MarineTraffic.com, the ship is sailing in the eastern Mediterranean Sea between Cyprus and the Syrian coast. The Razoni previously docked in Mersin, Turkey on Thursday.
The cargo was originally intended for Lebanon, but the buyer refused to accept it due to concerns over quality stemming from the long delay. The Ukrainian embassy in the country said on Monday that the shipper was looking for other options to offload the corn in Lebanon or elsewhere.
The agreement to resume the shipments from Ukraine, brokered by the UN and Turkey, was reached late last month. Kiev previously accused Moscow of blockading its ports, while Russia insisted that vessels could not sail due to Ukrainian naval mines.
Syria and Russia have had close ties since the Soviet times. Russian warplanes operate out of the country's Khmeimim air base during missions against Islamist terrorist groups, while Tartus is a point of service for the Russian Navy. In June, Syria became the second country after Russia to recognize the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, which broke away from Ukraine in 2014.
Of the 21 ships with grain on board that left Ukrainian ports recently, only 1 headed for Africa. The rest went to countries not threatened by famine. How does that correlate with propagandistic narratives circulated before the agreement on safe passage of ships was reached?
— Mikhail Ulyanov (@Amb_Ulyanov) August 17, 2022
Remember when Zelensky insisted Putin was using food to hold Africa "hostage?" pic.twitter.com/Ngv3v429gD
— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) August 25, 2022