russia says it is suspending its participation in an internationally brokered deal to allow grain exports from ukraine. the announcement was in response to what the russian army called a massive ukrainian drone attack on russian ships in occupied crimea. ukraine has called that a false pretext for blocking the grain corridor. earlier, the un secretary general urged all parties to renew the deal on ukrainian grain exports, which was due to expire next month. before the deal was in place, blockages led to food supply issues globally. joining us from dnipro in central ukraine is our correspondent james waterhouse. james, what have the russians been saying? james, what have the russians been sa inc? ~ , james, what have the russians been sa in: ? ~ , ., ., james, what have the russians been sa in? ~ ,., ., ., saying? well, there is a lot going on here, saying? well, there is a lot going on here. but saying? well, there is a lot going on here, but they saying? well, there is a lot goi
The work of the "grain corridor" continues, despite the attempts of the Russian occupiers to interrupt this initiative, said the speaker of Odesa regional military administration, Serhiy Bratchuk.
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that point he said, well, we ll wait and see, but now it certainly seems as though that is happening. now, you re absolutely right, alisyn that he did speak a lot about the grain shortages, about waiting to see whether or not that grain corridor that has been agreed to is actually going to work, but by and large, the real big news out of this conference that we re seeing right now i think is the fact that the u.s. has for a while already had this offer on the table to get both brittney griner and paul whelan out, obviously a big sense of urgency here on the part of the administration, alisyn. fred, what do we know about the details of this offer and if the russians are receptive? well, you know, one of the things that i think that we could probably ascertain is if this offer has been on the table for a while and now the u.s. is making it public, it s not clear whether or not the russians really have been ve areceptive t so far or whether or not they might be in some sort of rough