In Bali, yesterday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed any involvement of NATO to secure shipments of grain from Ukraine as nothing more than a plot to take over the Black Sea, reported Turkey’s official Anadolu Agency. He stated that in order to organize Ukraine’s grain export, the Western countries insist on creating “a monitoring mechanism” with the participation of NATO military forces that will control the passages from the Black Sea to the Turkish straits and further to the Mediterranean Sea. With Turkey’s help, Russia is “ready to provide security of convoys” to the Istanbul Strait, Mediterranean Sea, and the buyers’ markets, he said.
“The trouble is that Western colleagues want to create some kind of international monitoring mechanism for this process with the participation of NATO forces. We understand perfectly their plot,” the minister stressed.
