{"id":29553,"date":"2022-03-17T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ukrainian-ambassador-calls-on-greece-to-shut-ports-to-russia\/29553\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:26:07","slug":"ukrainian-ambassador-calls-on-greece-to-shut-ports-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/ukrainian-ambassador-calls-on-greece-to-shut-ports-to-russia\/29553\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Ambassador Calls on Greece to Shut Ports to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Ukraine urges Greece to shut its ports to Russian vessels and stop doing business with Russian companies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, Ukraine&#8217;s ambassador to Greece said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We ask Greece in particular to close the ports to Russian vessels&#8230; stop doing business with them and stop sending your ships to Russia,&#8221; Sergii Shutenko told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of NATO lifted hope on Wednesday for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war.<\/p>\n<p>Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis assured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday that sanctions against Russia by European Union countries would be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of ethnic Greeks live in Mariupol, where hundreds of thousands remain trapped under bombardment without heat, power or water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Accepting Russian money, you should be aware, that the blood of Ukrainian children, of Ukrainians and Greek Ukrainians in Mariupol is on these bank notes, on this money. Don&#8217;t accept bloody money from Russia,&#8221; Shutenko said.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 4,500 vessels, Greece&#8217;s merchant fleet is one of the largest in the world. The European Union has been considering a ban on Russian ships entering the bloc&#8217;s ports.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reuters &#8211; Reporting by Renee Maltezou; editing by Jonathan Oatis)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine urges Greece to shut its ports to Russian vessels and stop doing business with Russian companies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, Ukraine&#8217;s ambassador to Greece said on Wednesday. &#8220;We ask Greece in particular to close the ports to Russian vessels&#8230; stop doing business with them and stop sending your ships &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/29554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}