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Zelensky visits port as Ukraine readies for grain exports
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ODESA, 31 July 2022, (TON): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited a Black Sea port as crews prepared terminals to export grain trapped by Russia’s five-month-old war.
Work has been inching forward a week after a deal was struck to allow critical food supplies to flow to millions of impoverished people facing hunger worldwide.
Zelensky said at a port in the Odesa region “the first vessel, the first ship is being loaded since the beginning of the war.”
He said “however, that the departure of wheat and other grain will begin with several ships that were already loaded but could not leave Ukrainian ports after Russia invaded in late February.”
Ukraine is a key global exporter of wheat, barley, corn and sunflower oil, and the loss of those supplies has raised global food prices, threatened political insecurity and helped push more people into poverty and hunger in already vulnerable countries.
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