Three grain shipments to leave Ukraine Friday: Turkey

ANKARA, 05 August 2022, (TON): Turkey’s defense minister said “three more ships filled with grain will sail from Ukraine on Friday under a UN-backed deal lifting Russia’s blockade of the Black Sea.”

The Anadolu state news agency quoted Defense Minister Hulusi Akar as saying “it is planned that three ships will set sail tomorrow from Ukraine.”

Ankara also announced that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the agreement’s implementation by phone with UN chief Antonio Guterres, without disclosing further details.

Moscow and Kyiv agreed in Istanbul last month to resume shipments of wheat and other grain from Ukrainian ports for the first time since Russia invaded its neighbor in February.

The first ship, loaded with 26,000 tons of maize, set off from Odessa for the Lebanese port of Tripoli.

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