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Kyiv wants to expand current deal allowing
grain shipment
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Svyrydenko calls on Ukraine allies to provide
heavy weapons
Ukraine wants to expand a crucial grain-export agreement to
include steel shipments as a way to support an economy battered by Russia’s
war, Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said in an interview.
The cabinet minister called for
building on the deal brokered last July by the United Nations and Turkey, which
opened three Ukrainian Black Sea ports that had been blockaded by Russian
forces for food exports to alleviate the global market.