News - Middle East: A senior Russian official has warned that Moscow would terminate an UN-brokered deal reached to facilitate grain deliveries from Ukraine’s Black Sea if the Group of Seven (G7) countries moved to ban exports to Russia.

The deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, made the remarks in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday, after the G7 nations said they were considering a near-total ban on exports to Russia.

“This idea from the idiots at the G7 about a total ban of exports to our country by default is beautiful in that it implies a reciprocal ban on imports from our country, including categories of goods that are the most sensitive for the G7," Medvedev said.

"In such a case, the grain deal - and many other things that they need - will end for them," he added.