“SKC authorized the exit (September 12. -

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) of four ships carrying a total of 64,657 tons of grain and other food products as part of the Black Sea grain initiative,” RIA Novosti quotes the center’s message.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum that the West deceived countries in need of food with the export of grain from Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed with Putin's words that grain from Ukraine does not go to poor countries.