The United States urges Russia to return to the grain deal. The relevant statement made John Kirby, the Director of Strategic Communications for the National Security Council

“We have to take that ridiculous threat seriously. We are working and we will work with Ukraine and our allies and partners to try to find other ways to get the grain out of Ukraine. It’ll most likely have to go through ground routes. We’ve done this before [when] the grain deal was in effect. It"s not as efficient; you can"t get as much grain out that way. We understand that. But we"re going to keep trying.

Look, what has to happen here is - aside from Russia ending its blockade and, make no mistake, what they"re threatening to do is a military blockade that is a military act, so aside from just not doing that - they need to get back into the deal. The deal was good for everybody including Russian farmers. But it was really good for developing nations who have food scarcity issues that are only going to be exacerbated by this throughout the Global South, Asia, Africa, and Latin America”, - said John Kirby.