“The grain terminal in the port of Odessa is located at a considerable distance from the military unit, there is no obstacle so that the grain is exported to customers, as stipulated in the agreements signed in Istanbul,” he emphasized.

Lavrov pointed out that Russia’s obligations in the agreements penned with Ukraine on July 22 under the patronage of Turkey and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres do not include “anything that would prohibit us from continuing the special military operation to destroy the war infrastructure and other military targets.”

Lavrov charged that Western countries have learned to “present any distorted news so that it can be used against Russia.”

The head of Russian diplomacy is on his second stopover of an African tour that already took him to Egypt and will continue in Ethiopia and Uganda, according to his agenda.

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