Any attempts to abuse the arrangement will be stopped, the Foreign Ministry added
Russia is “allowing a technical prolongation” of the Black Sea grain initiative, which is set to expire later this week, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. It added that it reserved the right to forestall any attempt to use the scheme for “provocations.”
The terms of the grain deal allow for an automatic renewal by 120 days unless any participant poses objections to doing so. The ministry’s statement said that no such objections had been raised so far, including from Russia. This paves the way for the scheme to be extended beyond its expiry on Saturday.
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