"Blackmail of the Sanction Removal": OP on Putin's threats to limit grain removal from Ukraine

The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak in a comment to RBC-Ukraine reported this. According to him, blackmail on any issues comes from officials of Russia, when something goes on plan. Therefore, the Kremlin tries to stop Ukraine and the international community through fear. "The current statements about the termination of the" grain agreement "are absolutely unfounded and at the same time absolutely predictable.

Because there is no objective basis for such actions or statements at all," the official said. Podolyak noted that the parties to the Grain Agreement - Ukraine, the UN and Turkey have all the obligations that have taken over within the agreement. He added that Putin's statements that Russia cannot take out its goods look strange, because it is the Russian fleet that controls the Black Sea.

"That is, what can prevent the Russians from exporting grain and fulfilling their obligations except the Russians themselves? Mikhail Podolyak stated that the Russian Federation is nervously trying to find a new reason for an information campaign calling for sanctions and clicking on the UN and recipient countries so that they take at least more "pro-Russian" position. However, her attempts are doubted.

We will remind, on September 6 Vladimir Putin proposed to limit the export of grain from Ukraine, because EU countries are supplied solely to themselves, not developing countries. He did not rule out that he would discuss this issue with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. As of September 5, 50 ships were released from the Ukrainian ports within the grain agreement.