Excavators work at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. U.S. and European officials have toured Ukraine’s southern port of Izmail, a facility that is important in bringing Ukrainian grain exports to the world. It could become critical if a deal with Russia to allow grain exports from Ukrainian Black Sea ports expires without being renewed. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Germany on Thursday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to honor a UN-brokered deal to allow Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea. “Putin is again deliberately using the Black Sea agreement as a means of pressure to assert his interests: destabilization and an end to Western sanctions,” German agriculture minister Cem Ozdemir noted.

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