Thursday, August 10, 2023

Ukraine's navy announces Black Sea "humanitarian corridor"

Ukraine's navy said a new temporary Black Sea "humanitarian corridor" had started working on Thursday and that the first ships were expected to use it within days.

Oleh Chalyk, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian navy, told Reuters that the corridor would be used by commercial ships blocked at Ukraine's Black Sea ports and for grain and agricultural products.

"Today a new temporary humanitarian corridor has started to work," Chalyk said by phone.

"The corridor will be very transparent, we will put cameras on the ships and there will be a broadcast to show that this is purely a humanitarian mission and has no military purpose," he said.

The navy said in a separate statement that the risk posed by mines in the Black Sea remained

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  1. Ukraine has announced temporary corridors in the Black Sea for merchant vessels sailing to or from the ports of Chernomorsk, Odessa and Yuzhny, whose owners and captains "officially confirm their readiness to sail" along a route where a military threat and danger of mines persist.

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