Ukraine grain export deal off to ‘a very good start’ – UN interim Coordinator

Frederick J. Kenney Jr., interim Coordinator for the UN at the

for the Black Sea Initiative, said at a regular UN press briefing via video link from Istanbul, Türkiye that the ships contain “over 370,000 metric tons of grain and other food stocks”.

“Those vessels had been stranded in the three ports covered by the initiative when the war started”.

The grain deal

The initiative specifically allows for…