“This is an unprecedented agreement between two parties engaged in bloody conflict,” Guterres said at the ceremony.
Russia and Ukraine reached agreement toward releasing millions of tons of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports that – if implemented – would mark a major step toward shoring up global food supplies.
Government officials from Kyiv and Moscow signed parallel agreements with Turkey and the United Nations at a meeting in Istanbul. Grain ship traffic should begin in the coming days, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The accord involves shipments from three Ukrainian ports – Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi, said United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
