MADRID, 15 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The US State Department has described as “unacceptable” the recent episode in which Russian forces opened warning fire at a Palau-flagged Turkish cargo ship heading to the Ukrainian port of Izmail last weekend.
The deputy spokesman for the State Department, Vedant Patel, has assured that Russia’s decision to consider all ships sailing through the Black Sea bound for Ukrainian ports as military cargo transport is “an unacceptable escalation” and shows that Moscow tries to stop the movement of grain.
“We are concerned that the Russian Army may broaden its targets against Ukraine’s grain facilities to include attacks on civilian vessels in the Black Sea,” the spokesman said, urging Russia to rejoin the oil export agreement. grain.
“This is what works,” said Patel, who has estimated the number of tons of grain that could be safely distributed while the agreement lasted at 32 million. “This played an important role in stabilizing world prices,” he noted.
On August 13, Russian forces fired warning shots at the Russian cargo ship “Sukru Okan”, which was sailing through the Black Sea under the flag of Palau, a small island country located in the middle of Oceania.
The shots are part of the warnings issued by Moscow, which kyiv later also joined, after leaving the grain export agreement, considering that the Ukrainian side was not complying with its obligations.
