Dry cargo ship with Ukrainian grain. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 12 Two dry cargo ships with food left Ukrainian ports over the past day — one from the port of Yuzhny with a cargo of corn and one from Chornomorsk with wheat, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.» As part of the implementation of the «Initiative of Mutual Understanding for the Safe Transportation of Grain from the Ports of Ukraine», on August 12, 2022, the cargo ship «Zvezda Laura» (Marshall Islands, cargo — 60,150 tons of corn), from the port of Chornomorsk — dry cargo ship Sormovsky 121 (Belize, cargo — 3,050 tons of wheat),» Mizintsev said. He recalled that since August 1, 14 ships with 438,331 tons of food have left Ukrainian ports. In particular, the ships took out 367,981 tons of corn, 6,000 tons of sunflower oil, 50,300 tons of flour, 11,000 tons of soybeans, 3,050 tons of wheat. In six ports — Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny — 57 foreign ships from 14 states remain blocked. At the same time, there is a danger to navigation and damage to port infrastructure from the drift of Ukrainian mines torn from anchor along the coast of the Black Sea states.
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