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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

G7 to discuss action to break Russian blockade of Ukraine grain exports

A farmer works on a field near Lviv, Ukraine.
A farmer works on a field near Lviv, Ukraine. Photograph: Mykola Tys/EPA

Urgent measures to break the Russian blockade of grain exports from Ukraine’s ports, including by trying to open routes through Romanian and Baltic ports, will be discussed by G7 foreign and agriculture ministers at meetings in Germany.

The grain exports blockade is fast becoming one of the most urgent diplomatic and humanitarian crises in Ukraine. On Tuesday Joe Biden said the US was working on solutions “to get this food out into the world so that it could help bring down prices”.

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