Ukraine is satisfied with the terms of the initiative signed in Istanbul on the safe transportation of grain and food from Ukrainian ports and is ready to resume exports from them in a few days, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said.
“In a few days we are ready to start exporting from the ports on the Black Sea,” he said via video link from Istanbul on the air of the national telethon, specifying that we are talking about the ports of Chernomorsk, Odessa and Pivdenny.
“I believe that we are signing the agreement on our terms, because our water area is completely controlled by us. No ‘zrada’. No one surrenders anything, everyone did it from a position of strength after the liberation of Snake Island,” Kubrakov emphasized.
According to him, there is no risk of Russian warships entering Ukrainian ports along the green corridors opened after mine clearance.
Commenting on the initiative, the minister added that none of the other parties would check anything in the Ukrainian water area and ports, and a selective inspection of ships in the Bosphorus area would be carried out by the Ukraine-RF-Turkey-UN joint four-party group.
Kubrakov noted that Ukraine is also interested in such control in order to remove the risk of ships with unchecked cargo arriving at Ukrainian ports.
