Ankara: A Ukrainian journalist on Wednesday took benefit of a go to to Ankara with the aid of using Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to confront him with an undesirable query approximately grain exports from Ukraine, amid fears of globalwide starvation if the problem isn’t resolved.
Lavrov turned into in Turkey to talk about the established order of stable corridors for Ukrainian grain exports.
But the information convention with the aid of using Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu turned into coming to an quit with out Muslim Umerov having been capable of ask his query, no matter repeated attempts.
So the journalist stood up and addressed Mr Lavrov directly.
“I am from Ukrainian public television, I really need to invite a query!” he said.
Lavrov turned into visibly embarrassed with the aid of using the unscripted query, after the information convention’s cautiously worded exchanges.
“Apart from cereals, what different items did you thieve from Ukraine and who did you promote them to?” the journalist asked.
Lavrov, smiling, shot back: “You Ukrainians are continually involved approximately what you may thieve and you watched anybody thinks that way!
“Our desires there are clear, we need to store human beings from the stress of the neo-Nazi regime. “We aren’t obstructing the grain. In order for it to depart the ports, Mr (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelensky should deliver the order, it is all,” he added.
Contacted later with the aid of using AFP, Umerov, primarily based totally in Istanbul for Ukrainian public television, defined that he had raised his hand at some stage in the entire query-and-solution consultation however realised that the organisers “might now no longer allow me speak” so determined to interject loudly.
“I took the hazard of disrupting the information convention due to the fact all of Ukraine is awaiting the solution to this query,” he said.
Ukraine’s ambassador to Ankara on Friday accused Russia of stealing and exporting Ukrainian grain, especially to Turkey.
Since the begin of the warfare in Ukraine, Lavrov, the goal of Western sanctions, has made uncommon visits overseas that have taken him appreciably to China, India, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and two times to Turkey.
