Türkiye says 2 more grain ships leave Ukraine

By Diyar Guldogan

ANKARA (AA) - Two more ships have left a Ukrainian port under the Istanbul grain export deal, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The ships departed from the port of Chornomorsk, the ministry said in a statement, adding shipments from Ukrainian ports are continuing as planned.

Türkiye, the UN, Russia, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Istanbul on July 22 to resume grain exports from the Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Yuzhny, Chornomorsk and Odesa, which were halted due to the Russia-Ukraine war, now in its seventh month.

A Joint Coordination Center with officials from the three countries and the UN has been set up in Istanbul to oversee the shipments.

Since the first ship left Ukraine under the deal on Aug. 1, over 723,000 tons of Ukrainian grain have been delivered to world markets.