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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Luiza Ilie and Pavel Polityuk

Russia downbeat on Black Sea grain deal as Kyiv tries to unblock exports

FILE PHOTO: A view of the cereal terminal with grain silo in the Black Sea port of Constanta, Romania, May 11, 2022. REUTERS/Olimpiu Gheorghiu

Ukraine's prospects of unblocking grain shipments to eastern Europe improved on Friday as Romania opted against a unilateral ban on food imports, but there was no progress on extending a deal on Black Sea exports.

Russia's foreign minister made clear Moscow considered its conditions had not been met for extending a U.N.-brokered agreement guaranteeing safe exports via the Black Sea during the war in Ukraine.

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