ANKARA, June 23 —Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said today that Ankara was investigating claims that Ukrainian grain has been stolen by Russia and shipped to countries including Turkey, but added the probes had not found any stolen shipments so far.
Russia has previously denied allegations that it has stolen Ukrainian grain. The Kremlin reiterated today that it had not stolen any grain. "We took each claim seriously and carried out investigations based on these claims. We saw that the ships' port of departure and the origin of the goods is Russia on the records, based on the investigations we made after claims were made about Turkey," he said.
Russia and Ukraine account for nearly a third of global wheat supplies, while Russia also exports fertiliser and Ukraine corn and sunflower oil. But Ukrainian grain shipments from its Black Sea ports have stalled since Russia invaded, with some 20 million tonnes of grain stuck.
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