Russia Stops Ukraine Grain Deal, Shaking World Food Markets

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : The accord has allowed vital food products to be exported from Ukrainian ports to 45 countries on three continents, the United Nations said.
53% : In remarks conveyed by his press office, Mr. Zelensky added that Ukraine was ready to restart shipments if the United Nations and Turkey agreed.
52% : Mr. Guterres said, however, that the United Nations intended to start negotiating a new grain proposal with Mr. Putin.
44% :President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that Moscow had broken its agreement with the United Nations and with Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, rather than with his country, given that Ukraine had made a separate deal with the two mediators over grain.
42% : He said the United Nations had proposed enabling a subsidiary of the Russian Agricultural Bank -- one of several institutions barred by Western sanctions from SWIFT because of Russia's aggression -- to regain access with the European Commission, and that the agency had built a bespoke payment mechanism outside of SWIFT for the bank through JP Morgan.
39% : The agreement, known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative, was struck a year ago, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, to alleviate a global food crisis after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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