Talk about competing narratives. Russia's foreign minister is in Turkey's capital, where his hosts talked up the prospect of a UN-brokered plan to free up the Black Sea and the food supplies blocked by the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin wants the waters de-mined and the West to lift "sanctions" on food supplies that are critical to the developing world.
But wait: there are no Western sanctions on cereal and fertiliser exports. In front of the United Nations, the president of the European Council called on the Kremlin to "stop stealing grain in Ukraine while shifting the blame on others".
