Ukraine and Russia may be just days away from reaching a deal that would enable exports of millions of tons of trapped Ukrainian grain to resume via Black Sea ports, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“Negotiations are going ahead so that this grain, and sunflower oil, everything can reach the world,” Erdoğan told reporters on Tuesday at a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. “In a week or 10 days we will intensify the talks and try to arrive at a result.”
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, attacks against the country’s Black Sea ports, which normally carried up to 90% of Ukraine’s food exports, have chocked off the country’s principal routes for grain exports.
As Ukraine is one of the largest exporters of wheat, corn, and sunflower oil worldwide, the war-induced disruption of harvest production, as well as blockades on Black Sea ports, have had a devastating ripple effect on global food supplies, sparking a soar in living costs worldwide and widespread food shortages, of which the world’s most vulnerable economies bear the brunt.
Amid escalating tensions, Turkey, which has maintained diplomatic relations with both Kiev and Moscow, has emerged as a key mediator between the warring parties.
Ukraine's infrastructure minister thinks a deal can be done. "I hope we will achieve some results, some practical results very soon," Oleksandr Kubrakov told me from his operational centre in Kiev. "I hope we will see this green corridor appear in the Black Sea."
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