BREAKING: Russia and Ukraine signed a deal to let millions of tons of grain leave Ukraine's ports amid a food emergency.
, where one desperate woman said she couldn't afford to eat, and had heard that the World Food Program"stopped the assistance because the White people are at war."
In the first round of talks in mid-July in Istanbul, the Russian Foreign Ministry said no agreement would be possible without guarantees that it could check ships to prevent any attempts to smuggle weapons into Ukraine. That point is addressed in the agreement by establishing a"control center" in Istanbul, to manage the exports.The U.S.
"What we're focusing on now is holding Russia accountable for implementing this agreement and for enabling Ukrainian grain to get to world markets," State Department spokesman Ned Price said Thursday."The Ukrainian delegation supports only those decisions that guarantee the security of Ukraine, in particular the regions close to ports; security issues are the most difficult aspects," Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told CBS News.
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