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“We don’t see any scale likely to happen … without our procedures being clear, understood by the commercial sector,” he later told a news conference. Russia and Ukraine are major global wheat suppliers, and Moscow’s February 24 invasion of its neighbour sent food prices soaring, stoking a global food crisis the World Food Programme says has pushed some 47 million people into “acute hunger.”
A UN spokesperson at the center said those checks would likely occur at an anchorage north of the Bosphorus.