The first ship with wheat sails from Ukraine according to the agreement

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Between honks of joy or perhaps uncertainty, just after half past eight in the morning, Spanish time, the bow of the 'Razoni' began to part the waters of the port of Odessa.

The Sierra Leone-flagged ship has become the first freighter to take advantage of the

two weeks ago.

The first hours of the trip through the Black Sea are marked by the difficulties of crossing a mined area.

The pilot ship that must avoid this danger goes to the front in the maritime expedition.

From the Coordination Center,

, Turkish, Ukrainian and Russian defense officials will closely observe in real time all the movements carried out by the 'Razoni',

.

The destination of the ship is the port of Beirut, the capital of one of the countries that has suffered the most from the rise in the price of basic products as a result of the Ukrainian war.

"Ukraine, together with its partners, has taken another step today towards preventing world hunger," Ukraine's Infrastructure Minister Oleksander Kubrakov said in a statement Monday morning.

The minister has stressed that his country has done "everything" to restore activity in the ports and has specified that the lifting of the Russian blockade on its ports will allow

.

Until today, only the river port of Izmail remained active.

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The device forged to allow this good news in the midst of an atrocious conflict is the result of a United Nations proposal and the mediation efforts of Turkey.

Under the pact, Moscow agrees not to open fire on any ship crossing the Black Sea to and from three Ukrainian ports, the largest of all, Odessa.

In return, Ukraine agrees that any ship bound for its terminals be extensively inspected in Turkey to ensure that it is not carrying weapons.

This same mechanism should also make it easier for Russia, another benchmark exporter of cereals and fertilizers, to trade its goods.

If the agreement works, not only will the door be opened to an

, but a stone will also be laid in favor of ending the war.

The pacts for the safe transport of goods signed in Istanbul mark the

large-scale invasion of Ukraine.

But the road to its operation is not without its dangers and, above all, it is marred by mistrust.

Less than 24 hours after the signing of the agreement that has come into operation this week,

.

He first denied the major and, later, argued that the hit site was a military objective.

Such reactions have raised fears that the pact will remain a dead letter shortly before it was born.

In words to EL MUNDO, the Director of Communications of the Turkish Presidency, Fahrettin Altun, maintained that

that has cost so many months of intense negotiation.

"It is expected that all parties will take those steps, which will ensure the implementation of that agreement in a timely and complete manner," Altun said, while recalling that his country "will be in close contact with the Ukrainian and Russian parties. "to ensure the proper functioning of what was signed.

Ankara, in fact, has reported that new ships are preparing to follow the 'Razoni' route.

According to Kiev, 17 ships with guts full of a total of

, whose silos are also filled with

.

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