Zhdanov spoke about the benefits that Russia receives through the export of Ukrainian grain ,
Oleg Zhdanov .
KYIV. UkraineGate . 4. August . 2022 | Political News.
Russia, which signed an agreement aimed at ensuring the safe passage of ships entering and leaving three Ukrainian Black Sea ports, in fact received a number of preferences and the lifting of sanctions on a number of its goods.
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“We agreed that the Russian Federation guarantees Ukraine security in terms of exporting our grain, but indirectly Russia gets preferences for itself. Because after signing the agreement, it is Ukraine that must address the country that imposed sanctions on these types of goods. And this is, in particular, the USA to ask that, as a result of our mutual agreement, these sanctions on these types of goods be removed from the Russian Federation. We are simply not told about this part of the agreement, that we are actually initiating the lifting of sanctions from the Russian Federation on our own. It is not Russia that comes and says “we agreed, shoot.” No, it is Ukraine that must confirm this and submit its proposals. We provided them, the USA heard us and lifted all sanctions,” Zhdanov said.
He added that the same principle of “removing sanctions from the Russian Federation” applies not only to grain, but also to mineral fertilizers and ammonia, which is also subject to transportation within the framework of the Istanbul agreement.
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Recently, Ukraine signed an agreement with Turkey and the UN on the resumption of grain exports by sea. According to the agreements reached by Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the UN, agricultural products and fertilizers, including ammonia, will receive a green corridor for export from the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhnoye.
At the same time, the Union of Chemists stated earlier that there are about 42,000 tons of ammonia in Odesa, for which there is a debt, because it is in storage.
Until February 24, 2022, Russian ammonia produced at the TolyattiAzot enterprise was transported through the Tolyatti-Odesa ammonia pipeline for further sale.
However, immediately after the start of the war, transportation was put on hold. Later it turned out that TolyattiAzot was bought out by the Russian oligarch Dmytro Mazepin, who promised Putin to “hand over” Odesa (on the territory of which the Odesa port plant is located, through which Russian ammonia is exported), in exchange for control over it enterprise .
The “Tolyati-Odesa” ammonia pipeline could be used not only by Mazepin, but also by another Russian oligarch – Arkady Rotenberg .
He owns the Russian company “Mindobriva”, more than 75% of its products used to be exported, half of which was delivered via the “Togliatti-Odesa” ammonia pipeline.
The ammonia pipeline passes both through Russia and Ukraine, in particular through the Luhansk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions.
Fertilizers were then shipped by sea through the Odesa Port Plant to other countries. Since February 24, the ammonia pipeline stopped its work.
Source: Ukrgate