Ukraine, Turkey and UN sign grain export agreement

 Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations have signed a grain export agreement in Istanbul on Friday.

The document was inked by Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Alexander Kubrakov, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. It also said that such a document should be signed by representatives of Turkey, the United Nations, and Russia.

Under the agreements, control over the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny, from which grain exports will be organized, will be exercised by the Ukrainian side. Apart from that, no ships other those to be used to export grain and related food products and fertilizers will be allowed to stay at these ports.