UKRAINE has increasingly utilised a new maritime passage to reinvigorate its grain exports, effectively bypassing a quasi-Russia-imposed blockade on its Black Sea ports, reports the New York Times. The recent surge in Russian airstrikes on Ukraine’s Odesa port, commencing in July after Russia’s withdrawal from a bilateral agreement that allowed Ukraine to export its agricultural produce directly to Turkey via these waters, compelled Ukraine to cease using its three Black Sea ports as primary...
https://www.seanews.com.tr/amid-black-sea-threats-ukraine-steps-up-use-of-new-shipping-route/198463/