On Friday, September 4, the Prime Minister convened an extraordinary government meeting. Responsible ministries and agencies will need to provide information on the volumes and origins of the cargo. As reported by the Prime Minister's communications advisor Elina Shverna, during a recent visit by Kulbergs to Kyiv, information was received about an unusually rapid increase in demand for the transit and transshipment of grain from Russia. After negotiations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Serhiy Korotky, the Latvian side also received data on significant volumes of grain exported from occupied Ukrainian territories. There is a risk that some of this grain may be transported through Latvian ports with documents indicating Russian origin. "This is very serious information that Latvia cannot ignore. If senior officials in Ukraine point to such a risk and at the same time we observe an unusual increase in demand for the transit of Russian grain, it is our duty to act immediately. We cannot allow our railways and ports to serve as a backup corridor for the Russian military economy," said Kulbergs. **Exporters are switching to the Baltic Sea** It was previously reported that Russian exporters have begun redirecting grain shipments from the ports of the Black and Azov Seas towards the Baltic in light of Ukrainian strikes on vessels and port infrastructure. In the last export season—from July 2025 to June 2026—46.3 million tons of grain were exported through Russian ports of the Black and Azov Seas, accounting for about 90% of Russian grain exports. Only about one million tons were shipped through Russian Baltic Sea ports. However, the situation is changing rapidly. According to sources at Reuters, since the beginning of the new season until mid-August 2026, the volume of requests for grain transportation through Russian Baltic Sea ports has already reached five million tons. For comparison, a similar figure for Novorossiysk and Tuapse was about six million tons. Additionally, Russian exporters are increasingly considering the possibility of using the ports of the Baltic states, primarily Latvia. It is expected that the volume of such shipments may sharply increase as early as September.