Black Sea Grain Deal

EU asks Russia to renew Black Sea grain deal

According to Valdis Dombrovskis, executive vice president of the European Commission, Russian limitations on the shipping of grains from Ukraine across the Black Sea were problematic for several developing nations in addition to Kyiv

Russian President Vladimir Putin pledges 50,000 tonnes of free grain to six African nations

Putin's announcement comes a week after Russia halted the Ukrainian Black Sea Grain Deal that effectively blocked supplies in continents like Africa, the Middle East, and Asia

Black Sea grain deal became meaningless, says Vladimir Putin

After quitting the deal, Russia has been pounding Ukrainian food-exporting ports nearly on a daily basis. An attack on Sunday on the southern port of Odesa killed one person and injured scores more.

What is the Black Sea Grain deal set to expire today? Why's Russia unwilling to extend it?

The Black Sea Grain initiative, a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey between Russia and Ukraine last year that enabled the movement of food grain, will expire today. There is concern that Moscow will pull out of it now. What will be the repercussions?

No further negotiations planned on Black Sea grain deal this week says Ukraine

Ukrainian Black Sea ports were closed following Russia's incursion last year, but access to three of them was restored in July under a deal mediated by the United Nations and Turkey between Moscow and Kyiv

Agreement extending Black Sea grain deal nearing, says Turkey

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, in place since July after diplomacy by the United Nations and Turkey, allows Ukraine grain exports via port, helping ease shortages and resulting price spikes triggered by Russia's invasion of the breadbasket nation

'No deal can stand on one leg...': Kremlin warns prospects for grain deal not so great

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has warned that the outlook for extending a deal beyond 18 May that allows the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizer from several Ukrainian Black Sea ports was not great because Russia's own such exports still face obstacles

Jaishankar in Moscow: Is the stage set for India to act as a mediator in Ukraine-Russia conflict?

After criticising India for its neutral stand, oil purchases and voting pattern on the matter at the UN Security Council, the West is suddenly floating the idea of India as a mediator