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The UN-backed deal aims to secure the passage of grain and essential goods such as sunflower oil from three Ukrainian ports, including Odesa. Wheat grains in a storage facility in Odesa. Joanna Partridge looks at what challenges lie ahead in moving millions of tonnes of grain from the blockaded ports. In Kyiv, there is deep scepticism about Russia’s intentions but Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Ukraine was trusting in the UN and Turkey – a key player in the negotiations – to police the agreement. He said that “the beacon of hope was shining bright in the Black Sea” and called on Russia and Ukraine to fully implement the accord. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said at a signing ceremony on Friday that the deal would open the way to significant volumes of food exports from Ukraine and alleviate a food and economic crisis in the developing world. Ukraine and Russia signed a UN-backed deal to allow the export of millions of tonnes of grain from blockaded Black Sea ports, potentially averting the threat of a catastrophic global food crisis. Ukraine and Russia agree to restart grain exports Ukraine is now seeking to establish a one-off tribunal to try Russia’s top regime members for the act of aggression, which could see it issuing an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin. And this is an ongoing process, consistent and insistent.”
“It’s not just Donetsk and Luhansk, it’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia and a number of other territories. “Now the geography is different,” Lavrov said, in a change of rhetoric from the Russian government. The Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, Andrew Roth, said Lavrov’s comments were the clearest signal yet that the Kremlin was preparing to launch a new round of annexations. Sergei Lavrov said Russia might seek more territory along the frontlines in Ukraine, calling it a buffer against the Himars long-range rocket artillery provided by the US. Russia’s foreign minister said in televised remarks on Wednesday that Moscow’s military “tasks” now go beyond the eastern Donbas region to permanently occupying broad swaths of southern Ukraine.