Russian and Ukraine officials are expected to organize negotiations in Turkey today to resolve the stagnant of exporting cereal.

Turkey said negotiations in Istanbul on July 13 between Moscow and Kiev will try to break the deadlock to allow Ukrainian cereals to be exported from the southern ports of the country.

Uncovering the blockade of Ukrainian ports is one of the important issues for global food security, Andryi Yermak, assistant president of Ukraine, posted on Telegram.

Ukraine is one of the largest wheat exporters and other cereals in the world, but the shipments were blocked by both Russian and mines that Kiev placed on the Black Sea.

Cereals at a warehouse in Odesa province, Ukraine, June 22.

Turkish officials, the leading country in the effort to resume Ukraine's cereal exports, said they had 20 merchant ships waiting in the Black Sea to be able to quickly take Ukrainian cereals as soon as the Ukrainian cereals as soon as they

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 12 said he had discussed with his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in private phones about paving the way for cereal -carrying trains in the Black Sea.

However, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman emphasized that Moscow has a list of tough requirements, including the problem of searching ships, for the upcoming negotiation.

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not expect this round of negotiations.

Tens of millions of tons of cereals are still trapped in Ukraine, causing farmers to pile up when they are about to enter a new harvest.

The Ukraine war clogged grain transport glands, fertilizer supply chains, pouring oil into global food crisis, according to experts.