Ecuador's banana exports to Russia resume as ban is lifted
In a significant development, Ecuador has seen the lifting of a Russian import ban on its bananas, a move that had initially stemmed from a contentious weapons transaction with the United States favoring Ukraine. Russian authorities had attributed the ban to pest detection, impacting not only bananas but also flowers, mere weeks following Ecuador's alignment with a US military exchange.

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