- Title: Russia says allegation it is stealing grain from Ukraine likely 'fake'
- Date: 6th May 2022
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (MAY 4, 2022) (REUTERS) KREMLIN
- Embargoed: 20th May 2022 11:59
- Keywords: Peskov Putin Russia Ukraine crisis
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA / UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA / UNIDENTIFIED LOCATION
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
- Reuters ID: LVA007620806052022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Information that Russia is stealing grain from Ukraine is likely to be fake, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday (May 6), after a U.N. food agency official said there were signs that Russia had been trucking grain out of occupied regions of its neighbour.
"We have no information, it appears to be fake," Peskov said.
A U.N. food agency official said on Friday that nearly 25 million tonnes of grain were stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave due to infrastructure challenges and the blockade of ports in the Black Sea.
Peskov also said that there was hostile rhetoric coming out of Poland, and that Warsaw could be "a source of threat".
Poland has led calls for the EU to toughen sanctions and for the Western NATO alliance to arm Ukraine as it tries to resist Russian forces that have poured into its east.
Answering on question about Victory Day parade in Ukrainian Mariupol city Kremlin spokesman noticed that he did not know whether there would be a parade in Mariupol on May 9 to commemorate the Soviet Union's victory in World War Two, but that the time for celebrating Victory Day there would come.
Russian forces say they have captured Mariupol despite ongoing resistance from Ukrainian forces in the city's Azovstal steel plant.
"The time will come to mark Victory Day in Mariupol," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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