Turkey is working on extending the grain agreement, but the process could be complicated by the extradition of Azov commanders to Ukraine

Turkey is working to extend the grain agreement for another two years, the country's President R. Erdogan said at a press conference with the President of Ukraine V. Zelenskyi.

"We are trying to extend the operation of the grain corridor after July 17 for at least 3 months, but we will make efforts to extend the grain agreement for another 2 years," Erdogan said, adding that he had already discussed this issue with the Russian president.

The President of Ukraine, V. Zelenskyi, stated that the whole world is interested in the continuation of the work of the grain corridor, and all partners of Ukraine should act so that the work of the grain agreement does not depend on the mood with which the President of the Russian Federation woke up.

We will remind that on May 17, the grain agreement was extended for 60 days, and should end on July 17. Currently, the EU, the USA and the UN are insisting on its extension, but the Russian Federation opposes it.

According to Bloomberg, Ukraine's Black Sea ports are almost empty, and some grain ships barely pass inspection. If the grain corridor is completed, the costs of farmers who will have to deliver products to the EU by road or rail will increase.

In June, the government of Ukraine created an insurance fund in the amount of 547 million dollars to pay compensations to companies whose ships will enter the Black Sea ports of Ukraine after the end of the grain agreement.

On July 6, the SCC announced that the Russians had stopped the grain corridor, and on June 28, the last inspections of vessels entering the port of Odesa were carried out - the Turkish bulker TQ Samsun and TK Majestic under the flag of St. Kitts and Nevis.

Two inspections were carried out at the exit from the ports in July: on July 2, the dry cargo Agapi S, which was headed with 55.88 thousand tons of corn from the port of Chornomorsk to the Netherlands, was inspected, and on July 4, the dry cargo Akdeniz M, which left Odesa for Turkey with 30 thousand tons of wheat.