Russia Blocks Ukraine's Black Sea Grain Export Deal Again.

Russia has blocked the registration of ships to all Ukrainian ports, halting the UN-brokered Black Sea grain export deal again, according to Ukraine's ministry of renovation and infrastructure. The Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered between Moscow and Kyiv last July to help tackle a global food crisis. Russia agreed in May to a two-month extension of the deal, which covers three Ukrainian ports including Pivdennyi, but has said the initiative will cease unless an agreement aimed at overcoming obstacles to Russian grain and fertiliser exports is fulfilled.