ROME, MAY 24 (ANSA) – Russia has announced that it will open a kind of “humanitarian corridor” from 8 am on Wednesday, 25th (local time) to allow foreign ships to leave the port of Mariupol.
The information was released today (24) by the Moscow Ministry of Defense, as quoted by the Interfax agency.
Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian Defense Control Center, announced that the corridor stretching from the port city to the Black Sea will be 115 miles long and two miles wide.
Despite this statement, “70 more ships from 16 countries continue to be blocked in six ports: Kherson, Mykolaiv, Chornomorsk, Ochakiv, Odessa and Yuzhne”.
The move came the day the European Union executive said there was “lots of evidence” that Russia was stealing wheat from Ukraine or destroying stocks that risked exacerbating the world’s food crisis.
Russian forces closed all Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea, effectively preventing the export of the country’s grain stocks. Last week, Moscow made the passage of Ukrainian ships conditional on lifting sanctions against Western exports.
source: Noticias
