Ukraine live blog: UN: Grain carriers to continue crossing Black Sea

Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has called on Russia to comply with its obligations under the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports across the Black Sea. “Millions of people are starving around the world and Russia is once again compromising the safety of grain ships. That has to stop,” said the Greens politician on Sunday in Berlin. “Whether families in Lebanon, Niger or Bangladesh can pay for their next meal must not depend on the Russian president’s war plans.”

Baerbock pointed out that dozens of ships are currently on their way to bring grain from Ukraine to other countries. “We urge Russia not to compromise the safety of these ships and to return to its commitments to the international community.” Since the agreement came into force in the summer, grain prices on the world market have finally fallen back to a tolerable levelstressed Baerbock with a view to Ukraine.

Putin emphasizes that he is not only attacking the people of Ukraine, but the entire international community, Baerbock said in an interview with the ARD program “Report from Berlin”. The suspension of grain deliveries means “that this war will be extended again and again to countries like Somalia, Libya and other regions of the world, because the people there have already suffered massively in recent months from the fact that grain from Ukraine is not in the world could come, therefore had to suffer from hunger”.