Putin Says Russia Thinking of Ditching Grain Deal Due to West’s ‘Cheating’

Putin Says Russia Thinking of Ditching Grain Deal Due to West’s ‘Cheating’
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with war correspondents at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 13, 2023. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Kremlin via Reuters
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MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal because the West had cheated Moscow by implementing none of the promises to get Russian agricultural goods to world markets.

The deal allowing Ukraine to resume seaborne grain exports was brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July last year to help tackle a global food crisis the U.N. said had been worsened by Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two.