“It is important that all parties join any action that could jeopardize the Black Sea Grain Initiative, which is a critical humanitarian effort that obviously has a positive effect on access to food for millions of people around the world,” Dujarric said. additional.
The attack happened at 4:20 a. m. on Saturday in Sevastopol, Crimea’s largest city, the Russian Defense Ministry wrote on Telegram. The attack involved nine aerial and seven maritime drones, the publication said. Russia claimed to have destroyed all the drones and that its fleet had suffered “minor damage. “
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Russia also claimed that the ships targeted by the attack were concerned about the safety of the grain room. The United Nations has been working with Russia and Ukraine, with Turkey acting as an intermediary, to identify the room as a means of securing important food. of grain amid fears that the world may face famine.
But now Moscow has suspended its participation in the deal, undermining the deal and threatening the world’s food supply.
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“Given Array. . of the terrorist act of the Kyiv regime with the participation of British experts opposed to Black Sea Fleet vessels and civilian vessels concerned about the safety of the ‘grain corridor’, Russia suspends its participation in the implementation of agreements on the export of agricultural products from Ukrainian ports,” the ministry said in a statement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leader Andriy Yermak accused Russia of “blackmail” and “inventing terrorist attacks” on its own territory, Reuters reported.
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Russian called the attack “terrorism” and accused “British specialists” of coordinating and helping execute the attack.
“The preparation of this terrorist act and the education of the army workers’ corps of the Navy’s 73rd Special Operations Center were carried out under the supervision of British specialists in the town of Oshakov in Ukraine’s Nikolayev region,” the ministry wrote, adding an allegation that the British Navy was also the attack on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in September.
The British Ministry of Defence accuses it of a “fabricated story”.
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“To [distract] from its disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry is resorting to selling false statements on an epic scale,” the ministry tweeted. “This fabricated story says more about the arguments that are positioned within the Russian government than it does with the West. “
Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter specializing in national news.