The Russian newspaper Izvestia revealed Turkey's plan to resolve the Ukrainian wheat issue. It will be the Turkish navy to mine the Black Sea and then escort the Ukrainian ships in neutral waters. The aim is to release almost 53 million tons of Ukrainian cereals stored in silos in ports near the Sea of Azov, largely controlled by the Russians, in favor of African (about 25), Middle Eastern and Asian countries. The new harvests will also arrive by September and should yield another 75 tons of the precious wheat.
The Turkish proposal wants to prevent Russia from selling, like first player, the wheat stolen from Ukraine from African countries, thus dramatically increasing the consensus among the population of the black continent.
Obstructing Erdogan's proposal are the Ukrainians who do not at all digest the loosening of Odessa's defenses consisting of mines. More clear was the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro kuleba who declares total distrust of the enemy: "Does Putin tell you that he will not use commercial routes to attack Odessa? And the same Putin who told the German Chancellor Scholz and the French President Macron that he would never attack Ukraine ".
There are other solutions which, however, likewise do not receive the favorable opinion of the Zelensky establishment. Transporting the grain via Belarus, creating a corridor for it to sail from the already cleared port of Mariupol, or using the rivers.
Turkey's position is also frowned upon by Kiev. Erdogan is in NATO, supplies arms to Kiev but is also a friend of Putin.
The only viable solution could be a naval escort mission under the aegis of the UN. But which country would be willing to deploy military ships in a very hot sea area where the accident can be caused at any time (by Russians and Ukrainians) to raise the bar of the conflict and thus involve NATO and the EU.
What is certain is that it is necessary to avert as soon as possible the conditions of a famine in African countries that would inevitably pour hundreds of thousands of migrants to the European coasts, the Italian ones would become the first port of call. An unsustainable situation for our country which already has its first reception centers collapsed in the face of an unclear and, to date, still ineffective community redistribution policy.