[HIGHLIGHTS] Progress of the situation in Russia and Ukraine: Russia asks the West to remove obstacles to Russian fertilizer and grain exports The US aid plan to Ukraine is suspected to have been leaked

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the 7th that if the West makes no progress in removing obstacles to Russian fertilizer and grain exports, Russia will reconsider the necessity of the Black Sea grain initiative. According to the New York Times, a confidential document related to the US aid plan to Ukraine is suspected to have been leaked this week, and the Pentagon is investigating it.

The Ukrainian side rejected Brazilian President Lula's proposal to "abandon Crimea to end the conflict" The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said that any mediation to restore peace in Ukraine should be based on respecting Ukraine's sovereignty.