INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia said Tuesday that a United States -brokered agreement to halt military activity in the Black Sea would only take effect after a
Rosselkhozbank and other financial institutions involved in providing international trade operations in food and fertilizers were lifted.It
also called for those institutions to be re-connected to the SWIFT network, an international payment system that some Russian banks have
been blocked from using.The West has not directly sanctioned Russian agriculture, but Moscow has long complained that restrictions on
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration over the fact that a potential Black Sea ceasefire agreement would be tied with sanctions
address on Tuesday.AFP contributed reporting.
