Russia and Ukraine are major global wheat suppliers, and the UN-brokered agreement they signed in Istanbul is intended both to ease the food crisis and reduce global grains prices that have risen since the Russian invasion.
Thomson ReutersA Ukrainian service member stands in front of silos of grain from the Odesa Black Sea port on Friday.Speaking in an interview with broadcaster Kanal 7, Ibrahim Kalin said the joint co-ordination centre in Istanbul will probably complete the final work on the exporting routes very soon.
Ukraine's president said on Sunday that the country's harvest could be half its usual amount this year due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine, a key global supplier of grains, has struggled to get its product to buyers due to a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports, stoking global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fertilizer.Elsewhere, a senior official in Russian-annexed Crimea accused Ukraine of carrying out a drone attack ahead of planned celebrations to mark Russia's Navy Day, injuring six people and forcing the cancellation of festivities.
Fighting continued elsewhere in Ukraine. The mayor of the port city of Mykolaiv, Vitaliy Kim, said one person died in Russian shelling that damaged a hotel and school buildings.The founder and owner of one of the largest Ukrainian agriculture companies Nibulon, Oleksiy Vadatursky, and his wife were killed in a Russian strike on the Mykolaiv region, Kim said on Sunday.
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