Russia's Black Sea Grain Initiative in Jeopardy Amid Renewed Threats.

Russia has threatened to abandon the Black Sea Grain Initiative, a UN-backed deal that allows the safe wartime export of agricultural products from besieged Ukrainian ports. Moscow's demands include the return of the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT banking system. The exclusion of Russia from SWIFT severed the country from much of the global financial system. Lavrov also said that the deal is currently one-sided since Russian fertilizers have not been able to transit the same way Ukrainian grain has.