Russia's blockade of Ukrainian grain exports is a war crime - EU's top diplomat
- Country:
- Belgium
Russia's blockade of the export of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain is a war crime, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
"We call on Russia to deblockade the (Ukrainian) ports...It is inconceivable, one cannot imagine that millions of tonnes of wheat remain blocked in Ukraine while in the rest of the world people are suffering hunger," he told reporters.
"This is a real war crime, so I cannot imagine that this will last much longer," he said on arriving at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
(This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
- READ MORE ON:
- European Union
- Russia
- Luxembourg
- Ukrainian
- Josep Borrell
- Ukraine
Advertisement
ALSO READ
Floods swamp swathes of Russia and Kazakhstan but worse still to come
Biden and Japan's Kishida forge new partnership, eyeing China and Russia
Russia intensifies crackdown on dissent by placing additional Kremlin critics on wanted list
Russia launches 'counter-terrorist operation' in southern region, RIA reports
Water levels rise in Russian rivers in flooding zone