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epa10754099 People sit on the river bank as the Turkey flagged TQ Samsunhe, the last grain ship that left a Ukrainian port since Russia exit the Grain Corridor Agreement one day earlier, is seen in the Marmara Sea, in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 July 2023. Russia announced that it withdrew from the Grain Corridor Agreement, which started in July one year earlier, because the barriers to the sale of its own food products were not removed. The agreement had been signed with Russia and Ukraine at the initiative of Turkey and the UN. UN Secretary General Gutterez in a statement on 17 July expressed his disapointement about Russia's withdrawal from the agreement as this decision puts at risk global food security. EPA/SEDAT SUNA