railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision of safe corridors. nothing more is required. ukraine wants proper assurances that any safe, demined pathway wouldn t
Russia and Ukraine have signed a landmark deal allowing grain exports to resume from Black Sea ports after they were blockaded by Vladimir Putin's forces.The deal was also signed by the UN and Turkey at a ceremony in Istanbul today.
in many ways as an arbiter, as a place where, perhaps in the future, president putin and president zelensky can come and have future peace talks. that was mentioned again today, but there s not really any sign that that will happen soon. what they did talk about, though, was perhaps a way to unblock ukrainian grain. wheat exports are so important, notjust to the war damaged ukrainian economy, but also to actually get that out around the world and to make sure that people in countries who rely on that grain can actually get it. and, at the moment, if you look out at this beautiful bosporus river, this is normally where the grain moves and flows. but, because of the shipping, the barricades in the sea, the mining, itjust hasn t been happening at the moment. but crucial in all of this is ukraine. now, ukraine were not at these talks today. so, even though turkey and russia came up with what they saw as a plan for the future, you couldn t get any assurances because ukraine want to know tha
we won t stop acting to back ukraine and to confront russia with the facts. dear colleagues, russia is using food as a weapon of war still in ukraine, blockading ports and turning farmlands into battlefields. russia has in turn hit back, its representative to the eu accusing the bloc of habitually misleading the international community, making groundless russophobic accusations and claims that it has mobilized a full scale campaign to rapidly retrieve millions of tonnes of ukrainian grain to the eu. there s no evidence for that allegation. my colleague, stephen sackur, has been speaking to the russian ambassador to the un. we are not refusing to export our grain to the world market, but there are obstacles that should be overcome to do it. indeed, grain and fertilisers
railways. we start with the war in ukraine, and russia is denying that its invasion has caused a global food crisis, despite the fact that we ve seen soaring wheat prices driven by the collapse of ukrainian exports. its foreign minister, sergey lavrov, is in the turkish capital, ankara, for talks with his turkish counterpart mevlut cavusoglu. on the agenda creating a potential sea corridor for ukrainian agricultural exports. throughout the war, russia has been blockading black sea ports, including odesa. 20 million tonnes of grain is now stuck there grain many countries are reliant on. but mr lavrov says the onus is on ukraine to demine the waters around them, which were laid by ukraine as part of its defence. here s mr lavrov. to resolve this problem, we need one thing for the ukrainians to allow access to their ports, either by demining or the provision