{"id":22496,"date":"2022-05-26T05:42:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22496"},"modified":"2022-05-26T05:42:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T05:42:46","slug":"russia-ready-to-allow-grain-shipments-if-sanctions-lifted-rudenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/26\/russia-ready-to-allow-grain-shipments-if-sanctions-lifted-rudenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia &#8216;ready to allow grain shipments if sanctions lifted&#8217; \u2013 Rudenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for the lifting of some sanctions, the Interfax news agency cited <strong>Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko as saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports have been blocked since Russia sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February. More than 20m tonnes of grain are stuck in silos in the country, <a href=\"\/\/item\/mobile.guardianapis.com\/international\/items\/world\/2022\/may\/14\/ukraine-says-russian-forces-withdrawing-kharkiv\">raising concerns about famine in countries<\/a> dependent on the supplies.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"element element-image figure-wide\" data-media-id=\"e743cebdb04993eef9880fd305b580a0fb4c9738\">\n<div class=\"figure__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gu-image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.guim.co.uk\/e743cebdb04993eef9880fd305b580a0fb4c9738\/0_0_3500_2100\/1000.jpg\" alt=\"A military vehicle in a grain field previously mined with explosives in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div><figcaption><span class=\"element-image__caption\">A military vehicle in a grain field previously mined with explosives in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine.<\/span><span class=\"element-image__credit\">Photograph: Edgar Su\/Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Western powers have been discussing the idea of setting up \u201csafe corridors\u201d for grain exports from Ukraine\u2019s ports, although these would need Russian consent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have repeatedly stated on this point that a solution to the food problem requires a comprehensive approach, including the lifting of sanctions that have been imposed on Russian exports and financial transactions,\u201d Rudenko was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it also requires the demining by the Ukrainian side of all ports where ships are anchored. Russia is ready to provide the necessary humanitarian passage, which it does every day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for the lifting of some sanctions, the Interfax news agency cited Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko as saying. Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea ports have been blocked since Russia sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February. More than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,12],"tags":[6573,10873,6458,9127,6496,5345,6232,5572,3457,5217,5713,9178,5180,5555],"class_list":["post-22496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-world-news","tag-black","tag-dependent","tag-famine","tag-february","tag-food","tag-foreign-minister","tag-grains","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-sanctions","tag-troops","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}