the European Union (EU) at the Summit on May 30-31 will discuss the growing risk of hunger in countries depending on the supply of agricultural products from Ukraine. According to the sources of the Spanish newspaper El Pais, the EU is considering the possibility of organizing a naval mission to help the export of Ukrainian grain, including from Odessa. But in Europe they fear clashes with the Russian military.
EU considers it necessary to take thousands of tons of corn, barley and, above all, wheat blocked in Ukraine as soon as possible. According to El Pais, the draft final statement of the summit, “is strongly condemned by the destruction and illegal assignment of agricultural products of Ukraine by Russia.” The EU plans to ask Moscow to “remove the blockade of Ukrainian ports and allow the export of food, in particular, from Odessa”.
One of the difficulties in organizing the Naval Mission, as the newspaper notes, would be a passing to the port of Odessa. Since 1936, the mantryo convention was regulated by the Montreo Convention, which Turkey is monitored by the articles. But one of the interlocutors El Pais assures that Ankara would give permission to pass European ships, since we are talking about a humanitarian mission.