Corridors for foreign ships will be opened in the Black and Azov Seas – Russian Defense Ministry

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Two maritime humanitarian corridors for the exit of foreign ships from ports in the Black and Azov Seas will operate every day from 8 to 19:00 Moscow time. About it declared Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian Defense Control Center, at a briefing.

In the Black Sea, ships, according to the occupier, will be able to leave the ports of Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny in a south-westerly direction from the territorial sea of ​​Ukraine, 80 miles long and 3 miles wide.

In the Sea of ​​Azov, an exit will be opened from the port of Mariupol with a length of 115 miles and a width of 2 miles in the direction of the Black Sea. Both exits will become lanes for the safe movement of ships, Mizintsev said.

According to the Russian military, 70 foreign ships from 16 countries are blocked in 6 ports – Kherson, Nikolaev, Chernomorsk, Ochakov, Odessa and Yuzhny.

Opening corridors in the sea – what is the reaction of Ukraine

The Ukrainian side did not confirm the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the opening of sea corridors in the Black and Azov Seas. The schedule of the corridors was also not announced.

The day before, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace urged the Russian Federation to allow Ukraine to export grain by sea in order to some countries did not face the problem of famine due to the lack of grain.

It is unlikely that Ukraine will be able to export as much grain by car as by sea. Supply shortages will drive up the prices of many products in the world.

Ukrainian intelligence officers on May 10 told how RF Armed Forces steal grain in the territories temporarily controlled by them in Kharkiv, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Grain is transported by trucks to the Crimea and Russia, the other part goes to the Mediterranean Sea for sale.

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