News - Middle East: Moscow says the Ukrainian grain shipment deal will not be extended unless Russia's demands are met.

The termination of the unprecedented wartime agreement will prevent hunger-stricken parts of the world from receiving the vital crop.
At a press conference on Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there would be no renewal to the deal, which expires on July 17, unless the demands were met.
"The Black Sea agreements are no longer in effect. The deadline, as the Russian president said earlier, is July 17. Unfortunately, the part of the Black Sea agreement that concerns Russia has not yet been fulfilled. As a result, it has been terminated," he said.
The agreement last came up for extension on May 18 and Russia agreed at that point to extend it for 60 more days.
The deal came with a separate agreement to facilitate shipments of Russian food and fertilizer. Moscow says no facilitation under that agreement has yet taken place. The Kremlin had initially threatened to abandon the deal if its concerns were not addressed. 
"When the part of the Black Sea deal related to Russia is implemented, Russia will immediately return to the implementation of the deal," Peskov said.
The deal is officially known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative. It was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations on July 22, 2022 and has since, according to the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, allowed three Ukrainian ports to export some 32.9 million metric tons of grain and other food to the world, over half of that to developing countries.