Ship owners are ready to continue deliveries – Zelenskyy on Russia’s withdrawal from grain deal
Companies that own ships are ready to continue supplying grain if Ukraine and Turkey ensure the passage of ships.
This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov said on Facebook.
– “Even without Russia, we must do everything to ensure that we can use this Black Sea corridor. We are not afraid. We have been approached by companies that own ships. They said that they are ready if Ukraine lets go and Turkey lets them through, so everyone is ready to continue supplying grain,” the head of state said.
Zelenskyy noted that there were two agreements in the grain initiative: Ukraine, Turkey, the UN – in the first, and Turkey, Russia, the UN – in the second.
According to the President, when Russia says it is stopping, it is breaking its agreements with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish President Recep Erdogan. But it had no agreements with Ukraine.
Zelenskyy ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to prepare official signals to the UN and Turkey regarding the agreement, so that they could answer him that they were ready to continue our initiative.
On 17 July, the day the grain deal expired, the Russian dictator’s secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said that Moscow would not extend it. According to him, the Russian Federation would allegedly return to the grain deal “immediately” after “its terms are fulfilled”. He did not specify which ones.
