Britain’s Johnson: We’re working on getting Ukraine’s grain out

SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – G7 leaders are engaged on discovering a method of letting Ukraine export its grain, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned on Tuesday.

“We’re engaged on it, we’re all engaged on it,” he mentioned at first of a five-way assembly with France’s Emmanuel Macron, Italy’s Mario Draghi, Germany’s Olaf Scholz and the U.S.’s Joe Biden, when requested in the event that they had been going to get the grain out of Ukraine.

Ukraine’s bulk grain exports are being hindered by a Russian blockade of its Black Sea ports, forcing exporters to make use of much less environment friendly land routes.

(Reporting by Thomas Escritt; enhancing by Matthias Williams)