According to a senior US official, Ukraine is planning to export about the same quantity of grain it had been shipping every month before to the commencement of the Russian conflict in late February.
“Thanks to substantial international assistance, Ukraine is on course to export roughly 4 million tonnes of agricultural products in August,” a senior US State Department official, who declined to be identified, told AFP.
Prior to the commencement of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine on February 24, Ukraine exported over 5 million tonnes of agricultural goods per month.
Since the outbreak of the war, Ukraine has reduced the rate of grain shipments before altogether ceasing them.
The battle has heightened worries of a worldwide food catastrophe, as Ukraine is one of the world’s top grain producers and exporters.
However, since Kyiv and Moscow signed an agreement on July 22 under the auspices of the United Nations and Turkey to facilitate agricultural product exports, approximately 33 ships loaded with grain have left Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea, with approximately 720,000 tonnes on board, according to a US official.
Another European Union-sponsored project, the source stated, permitted the shipment of 2.5 to 3 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain via land, whether by truck or train.
Given the importance of this food supply to several African nations, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has committed to “intensify” Ukrainian grain supplies before the arrival of winter.
“There is no solution to the global food crisis without securing full worldwide access to Ukrainian food goods, Russian food, and fertilisers,” Guterres said.
A similar deal assured that Moscow’s agricultural and fertiliser goods were exported.
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