Turkish Defense Ministry: two ships with food left the port of Chornomorsk

This is stated on the ministry's Twitter page.

“The FULMAR S vessel under the flag of Barbados is transporting 12,000 tons of corn from Chornomorsk to Iskenderun, and the THOE vessel under the flag of the Marshall Islands also left Chornomorsk for Tekirdag with 3,000 tons of sunflower seeds,” the Turkish Defense Ministry said.

Earlier, Frederick Jay Kenny, the UN temporary representative at the Joint Coordinating Center in Istanbul, spoke about the great interest of ship owners in participating in grain exports from Ukraine.