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Ukraine grain shipments slow in Russian bid to export ammonia

Moscow wants the transit of ammonia, a key ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers, to resume in Ukrainian territory.

Russia's ammonia is a key ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers.
Russia's ammonia is a key ingredient in nitrogen-based fertilizers. (AN/Viktor Talashuk/Unsplash)

Moscow has throttled the use of one of the three Ukrainian ports covered under a grain shipping deal in a bid to force Kyiv to allow more Russian ammonia to reach global markets, according to the United Nations.

Only 33 vessels departed from the three Ukrainian ports, down by half from April, and just three of those ships left from the port of Yuzhny/Pivdennyi, U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told a press briefing on Thursday.

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