“I believe that we are seeing significant interest on the part of ship owners in terms of their readiness to provide these deliveries,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Kenny added that the posting of instructions from the center for the export of food from Ukraine will contribute to an increase in the number of applications for export.

Earlier, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said that two more dry cargo ships with corn and flour left Ukrainian Chernomorsk for Liberia and Turkey as part of a food deal.