This was announced on Monday by the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. Government Cereal exports by sea, blocked due to the war, are expected to resume this week.
Departure of ships from ports Ukrainians in the Black Sea will take place within the framework of the agreement signed on July 22 in Istanbulaccording to the minister in a speech in Kyivquoted by the Interfax agency.
According to his estimates, the opening of ports will allow monthly exports of about 3 million tons, which will bring additional income to Ukraine in the amount of $1 billion.
Kubrakov indicated that the coordination center would be created in Istanbul Supervision of the work of the humanitarian corridor for the departure of grain will begin on Wednesday, July 27.
However, its functions will not extend to the waters Ukrainian territorialin which, according to him, “only the Ukrainian authorities will have the competence to manage and guarantee all processes.”
Demining tasks will be carried out exclusively in the corridors created for the exit of grain shipments, and all ships will be accompanied by ships Ministry of Infrastructureshe added.
For his part, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Yuri Vaskov said that if everything goes according to plan, the first batch of grain will depart this week from the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region.
“They will follow the port Odessa and the port of Yuzhny,” he said and assured that within two weeks ministry it will be technically ready for export from all terminals of the three ports in question.
The agreement signed last week under the auspices of United Nations and Turkey envisages a maritime corridor to alleviate the food crisis caused by the Russian blockade of Ukrainian ports Black Sea.
However, after the attacks undertaken on Saturday on the Odessa commercial port, Ukraine accused Russia “spit in the face” of the UN and Turkey and stated that Russia must take “full responsibility” in the event of a breach of the agreement.
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