Kyiv is devising a plan with global insurers to reopen a crucial grain-export route for vessels navigating the Black Sea, a shipping lane blockaded by Russia for the past month.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative had secured the wartime shipment of 32 million tons of food in less than a year until Moscow backed out of the deal in July and escalated attacks on the infrastructure underpinning the Ukrainian grain industry, the country’s economic heart.