“Dry cargo ship RAZONI with corn, which left the Odessa port of Ukraine yesterday, reached the Black Sea entrance to the Bosphorus and anchored in the place allotted to it,” the Turkish defense ministry said.

Earlier, the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov confirmed the departure of the first vessel with grain from the Odessa port.

On July 22, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that two documents were signed in Istanbul, which are aimed at solving the problems of supplying food and fertilizers to world markets.