The latest proposals to restart the Black Sea grain deal will not fly because they do not deliver on promises made to Moscow, Lavrov said after a week of global diplomacy at the U.N. General Assembly.
, which allowed Ukraine to export grain through the corridor and helped address a global food shortage.
"We explained to the Secretary General why his proposals won't work. We don't reject them. They're simply not realistic. They cannot be implemented," Lavrov said. He said a 10-point peace plan promoted by Kyiv was "completely not feasible" and that the conflict would be resolved on the battlefield if Ukraine and the West stuck to it.
Lavrov added that Moscow left the Black Sea grain initiative because promises made to Russia - including on removing sanctions on a Russian bank and reconnecting it to the global SWIFT system - had not been met.Russia quit the deal in July, a year after it was brokered by the U.N. and Turkey to combat a global food crisis that the U.N. said was worsened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine - both leading global grain exporters.
Ukraine exported nearly 33 million metric tons of grains under the pact, which the U.N. said benefited poor states by helping lower food prices more than 20% globally.
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