KYIV, 01 November 2022, (TON): Ships carrying grain sailed from Ukrainian ports on Monday despite Moscow’s suspension of its participation in a UN program to ensure the safety of such cargoes amid an unrelenting war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “his country would continue implementing the program, brokered by the United Nations and Turkiye in July and aimed at keeping the supply of food commodities to world markets flowing.”
Zelensky told a news conference “we understand what we offer the world. We offer stability on the food production market.”
But Moscow said it was unacceptable for shipping to pass through a Black Sea security corridor as Ukraine was using it to conduct military operations against Russia.