INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia said Tuesday that a U.S.-brokered agreement to halt military activity in the Black Sea would only take effect after a number of
agricultural and fertilizer exports.The Kremlin said the truce would enter into force only after sanctions on Rosselkhozbank and other
financial institutions involved in providing international trade operations in food and fertilizers were lifted.It also called for those
institutions to be re-connected to the SWIFT network, an international payment system that some Russian banks have been blocked from
using.The West has not directly sanctioned Russian agriculture, but Moscow has long complained that restrictions on shipping insurance and
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration over the fact that a potential Black Sea ceasefire agreement would be tied with sanctions
relief and accused the Kremlin of deceiving U.S
address on Tuesday.AFP contributed reporting.
