united nations russia came under pressure at the united nations security council on friday from its ally china and developing countries as well as western nations to avert a global food crisis and quickly revive ukrainian grain shipments moscow was also criticized by the un and council members for attacking ukrainian ports after pulling out of the yearold grain deal and destroying port infrastructure a violation of international humanitarian law banning attacks on civilian infrastructure in response to russia declaring wide areas in the black sea dangerous for shipping the un warned that a military incident in the sea could have catastrophic consequences russia said it suspended the black sea grain initiative because the un had failed to overcome obstacles to shipping its food and fertilizer to global markets the other half of the ukraine grain deal the kremlin said it would consider resuming ukrainian shipments if progress is made in overcoming the obstacles including in banking arrangements chinas deputy un ambassador geng shuang noted un secretarygeneral antonio guterres commitment to make every effort to ensure that both ukrainian grain and russian food and fertilizer get to world markets he expressed hope that russia and the un will work together to resume exports from both countries at an early date in the interest of maintaining international food security and alleviating the food crisis in developing countries in particular us ambassador linda thomasgreenfield accused russia of using the black sea as blackmail and playing political games pointing to moscows export of more grain than ever before at higher prices she called on the security council and all 193 un member nations to come together and urge russia to resume negotiations in good faith several developing countries warned of the impact of the cutoff in ukrainian grain shipments which has already led to a rise in wheat prices gabons un ambassador michel biang said the grain deal had avoided a spark in grain prices and calmed the risk of food insecurity in the droughtaffected horn of africa and other regions he urged talks to break the current deadlock and avoid a humanitarian crisis mozambiques un ambassador pedro afonso said russias action is certain to amplify global socioeconomic stresses in a world already grappling with a perfect storm of conflict climate change and a loss of confidence in multilateral solutions russias deputy un ambassador dmitry polyansky said russia stands ready to consider rejoining the deal if seven principles from the russiaun memorandum are implemented he listed them as the real not theoretical lifting of western sanctions on russian grain and fertilizer exports and the lifting of obstacles to russian banks that service exports including the immediate connection to the swift global banking system russia also wants the delivery of spare parts for agricultural production to resume a resolution to issues related to chartering vessels for russian exports including insurance the wardamaged ammonia pipeline from russia to ukraine to be fixed and other fertilizer issues resolved russian assets linked to agricultural production unfrozen