Ukraine Talks with Turkey, India, Egypt Over Grain Corridor

By Daryna Krasnolutska, Volodymyr Verbianyi and Olesia Safronova

Oct 18, 2026 (Bloomberg) –Ukraine is in talks with Turkey, Egypt and India on the possibility of opening up Black Sea civil navigation, particularly for agriculture exports, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.   

The country’s Black Sea ports are the main route for Ukraine’s food exports, capable of shipping up to 40 million tons (36.3 million tons) of grain within the marketing season. Since August, such shipments were halted amid Russian air attacks on port infrastructure and ships.

“We cannot manage this volume of shipments by rail,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with