KIGALI - Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday Britain was willing to assist with demining operations off Ukraine's southern coast and was considering offering insurance to ships to move millions of tonnes of grain stuck in the country.
Turkey is trying to broker talks between the United Nations, Ukraine and Russia to create a possible safe sea corridor in the Black Sea, but Moscow wants some Western sanctions lifted first to facilitate its grain and fertiliser exports. Mr Johnson said Britain was considering all options when asked whether the government could provide sovereign guarantees for shipping insurance.
Any mine clearing effort would be the biggest attempted since the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, and any project to clear mines off Ukraine would take several months. In a statement late on Thursday, Britain pledged 372 million pounds in aid to countries hit hardest by rising global food costs and shortages of fertiliser, including 130 million pounds for the World Food Programme.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this month that millions of people could starve because of the blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports which he said had left the world"on the brink of a terrible food crisis".
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