KYIV, Aug 29 – Ukraine is interested in resuming the functioning of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, from which the Russian Federation withdrew on July 17, but intends to strengthen and develop an alternative sea route for grain exports, along which two ships have already left Ukrainian ports, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said.

“Of course, after Russia's withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Ukrainian farmers and consumers or buyers of bread in Africa, in Asia, that is, in the countries where they need it most, suffered the most. These are the biggest, one might say, victims of Russian grain blackmail and the Russian Hunger Games,” Kuleba said at a joint briefing with his French counterpart Catherine Colonna in Paris.