Wheat harvest. File photoWASHINGTON, Jun 9 The United States, in cooperation with the European Union, is able to supply the world market with at best half of the volumes of grain that Ukraine exported in peacetime, said State Department sanctions coordinator Jim O'Brien «Ukraine exported six million tons of grain per month … and these deliveries stopped in March and April,» he said at a press briefing. jpg» />The UN wants to resolve the issue with Ukrainian grain in a package, the Russian Permanent Representative said»Together with our European partners, we are working hard to export as much grain as possible. However, in the best case, this will probably be about half of what was exported earlier, since Russia occupied or destroyed about 30% of Ukraine's grain production capacity,» O'Brien said. He added that the United States fully supports the UN's efforts to unblock the Odessa mouth and the resumption of supplies of Ukrainian grain by sea. The UN has repeatedly stated the threat of a food crisis due to a shortage of grain, the West accused Russia of opposing the supply of Ukrainian grain to world markets — Moscow categorically rejected such accusations. At the same time, the Kyiv authorities themselves have created many obstacles to the export of grain for export: in addition to the now revealed arson of grain in the Mariupol port, Ukrainian troops have mined the Black Sea, which does not allow grain to be transported to world markets by ships.
Sanctions need to be changed to supply Russian grain to the West, Peskov said
