(Finance) – The defense ministers of Russia and Turkey, Sergei Shoigu And Hulusi Akar, had a telephone conversation about Moscow’s decision to suspend the agreement on the export of grain from Ukrainian ports. The Kremlin was told that “questions have been discussed” on the issue. The Russian defense ministry also described the movement of ships along the river as “unacceptable” security corridor in the Black Sea after Moscow’s suspension of the wheat agreement. According to the Russian defense, the Ukrainian armed forces use the corridor for military operations against the Russian Federation. However, the ministry reiterated that it is a suspension of the agreement, not a cancellation.
This morning, the Turkish minister Akar stressed that “the suspension of the agreement has no winners, only losers. Stopping the ships has an impact on all of humanity. We will do everything possible to restart the agreement and reach a cease-fire“.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky however, he did know after talks with the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic, Pietr Vialthat his country will continue to fulfill the commitments of the UN program for the safe export of wheat from its Black Sea ports. United States outright condemnation of the Russian decision to suspend the wheat agreement, defined by the US State Department as a “blackmail” to the whole world. “It not only punishes Ukraine but it is a collective punishment for all those countries that need wheat”, underlined by Washington.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Kiev, Vitaly Klitschko, announced that part of the Ukrainian capital’s water supply network has been restored, particularly in the districts on the left bank of the Dnieper: waterless residents have thus increased from 80 to 40%. The technicians “are working to stabilize the operation of water stations as soon as possible – said Klitschko -. This morning, due to damage to an energy plant near Kiev, 80% of consumers in the capital were without supplying water and 350,000 apartments without electricity. Now, 40% of consumers are still without water “while there are” 270,000 apartments without electricity “.