West Seeks to Unblock Ukraine’s Grain Ports, Russian Envoy Says Pull-Back Unlikely

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Indonesia's Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi during a bilateral meeting at the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, on July 8, 2022. Willy Kurniawan/Pool/Reuters

KYIV—Ukraine’s Western allies on Friday urged Russia to allow Kyiv to ship grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far away from the battlefields.

Moscow for its part accused the West of waging economic warfare on Russia by attempting to isolate it with sanctions imposed over the Feb. 24 invasion.