The city’s Russian-appointed authorities signed an agreement to sell grain to Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
The principles that Russia has imposed on Zaporizhia province in southeastern Ukraine, which is located partly under Russian control, announced today that they have reached an agreement to sell grain abroad, mainly to the Middle East, Russian news agency TASS reported.
The countries with which an agreement was made are the Iranthe Iraq and the Saudi Arabiathe agency added, citing him Yevgeny Balitsky head of administration imposed by Russia on Zaporizhia.
Balitsky pointed out that a contract has been signed for the sale 150,000 tons of grain to Iranwhile adding that Russian traders and state-owned companies buy grain from Zaporizhia farmers.
“Prices aren’t bad at the moment,” he stated.
Ukraine accuses Russia, the world’s largest grain exporter, of steals grain from Ukrainian regions which its military has seized, which Moscow denies.
Meanwhile, Moscow plans to build a railway line to connect the southern Russian province Rostov with the Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine, according to TASS.
Russia took full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk province on Sunday, and Russian forces are fighting to drive Ukrainian forces out of Donetsk.
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