He said this during an online meeting of the Entrepreneurship in the New Economic Reality forum.
“I am in the Mariupol Commercial Sea Port, which is now setting up work in order to start sending and receiving cargo in the near future.
I'm talking about the very next few days, it's tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.
Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the port of Mariupol began to operate as usual.
According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, five foreign ships were able to leave the port of Mariupol after demining.