Turkey announces that another three ships loaded with grain will be able to set sail on Friday from Ukrainian ports

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Aug. 4 () –

Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced Thursday that another three grain-laden ships are ready to set sail and are scheduled to leave from Ukrainian ports on Friday.

This has been confirmed by Akar to the Turkish media, before which he added that a new ship without cargo is also expected to head towards the Ukrainian coast on Friday after being inspected in Istanbul, where the coordination center is located.

The Turkish Defense Minister has given this information after meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksei Reznikov, and with the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Oleksander Kubrakov, with whom he has discussed the plan for the departure of food from his country.

This will therefore be the second shipment of grain to leave Ukraine after the start of the war, after the first ship with 26,000 tons of grain set sail from the port of Odessa on Monday, something that was already applauded by the international community.

The agreement for the export of food from Ukrainian territory went ahead after the parties agreed to a UN-sponsored plan to form a coordination center in the city of Istanbul with the aim of carrying out joint inspections at the entrances and exits of the ports and guarantee the security of the routes.

The ships are expected to cross the Black Sea to the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey, where the aforementioned center is located, which will be in charge of examining the ships that enter Ukraine to ensure that they do not carry weapons or combat material.