Russia: By threatening to stop the export of grain, Putin wants to achieve direct negotiations with Ukraine

Last week, Vladimir Putin said that grain exported from Ukrainian ports goes to rich countries, while poor countries do not receive it. In this regard, he intends to limit the export of food. According to Putin, only two of the 87 ships that left Ukrainian ports were loaded in accordance with the UN World Food Program, which provides aid to the poorest countries. As Pavlo Koval, general director of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, explained to The Insider, in fact, ships chartered before the Russian invasion of Ukraine leave the ports, and Putin's repeated threats are an attempt to return to the negotiation process with Ukraine. He is trying to achieve the same goal by shelling the ZNPP. "When these grain corridors were opened, I expected that such provocations would occur even earlier. To date, about a hundred merchant ships have left these three ports, exporting a certain amount of grain and products of processing of grain and oil crops. A small amount of products was sent ...