But Zelensky believes that Russia will look for a way to disrupt the agreements.
Ukraine assumes that the Istanbul agreement with the Russian Federation on the unblocking of three ports in the Odesa region for the export of grain will be extended to other groups of goods. The Financial Times writes about it.
As Taras Kachka, Ukraine's trade representative and deputy economy minister, said, this agreement can be a model for further agreements.
“This agreement is about logistics, about the movement of ships through the Black Sea. What is the difference between grain and iron ore?” he said.
According to him, in July Ukraine was able to export about 3 million tons of grain via alternative routes – by roads, railways and the Danube River. That's less than half of what was exported through seaports before the war.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, said Russia would likely stick to the deal for a while as long as it served its interests.
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“It seems to me that these [sea] caravans will go back and forth for a while, parallel to the Russian caravans, which also want to transport their grain. Russia will look for a way to block all this again. This is my pessimistic and optimistic scenario, molded together,” he said. he.
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Speaking of metallurgy, the mining and metallurgical industry in Ukraine will lose 33% of exports and 10% of GDP without state aid and half a million jobs, this is stated in the letter of “Ukrmetalurgprom” to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. The enterprises of the industry work at a loss and only in order to save jobs: the workload of metal plants is 15% of the pre-war level, mining and beneficiation plants – 25%.
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We remind you that today from the ports of Odesa the first caravan of ships with Ukrainian corn left. Three ships – NAVI STAR, ROJEN and POLARNET – transport 57 thousand tons of grain. The destinations of the ships are Turkey, Great Britain and Ireland.
