Kremlin: Russian attack on Odessa has no effect on grain transport agreement

Grain export terminal in Odessan, Ukraine

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(Moscow = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoo Cheol-jong = Russian forces attacked the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine, but the Kremlin said on the 25th (local time) that it would have no effect on an agreement to transport grain through the Black Sea.

Kremlin spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov answered reporters’ questions regarding whether the attack on Odessa would jeopardize the agreement to transport grain in the Black Sea.

“This is purely military infrastructure related and has nothing to do with the implementation of the grain agreement or the infrastructure needed to transport it,” he said. did.

“The United Nations also has to fulfill its obligations on indirect restrictions related to Russia’s grain and fertilizer supply,” he said.

Grain stacked in warehouses on a farm in Odessa, southern Ukraine
Grain stacked in warehouses on a farm in Odessa, southern Ukraine

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Russia, Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkiye (Turkey) finally signed a deal on grain export through the Black Sea on the 22nd. Accordingly, it was decided to establish a safe route to the Black Sea and to open the way for Ukrainian grain and Russian grain and fertilizer exports.

However, on the 23rd, the day following the agreement, a missile attack was launched on Odessa, one of the grain export ports, raising concerns that the grain export agreement itself would be canceled.

In this regard, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a briefing on the previous day, “A sea-launched high-precision long-range missile destroyed the Ukrainian warship in the dock of the Odessasan ship repair factory and the storage of the anti-ship missile Harpoon supplied from the United States to Ukraine.”

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