Greece is ready to provide ships to help export grain from Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said today.

Speaking to reporters at the NATO summit in Madrid, Stoltenberg said "Greece has announced that it is ready to make ships available to extract grain from Ukraine."

Meanwhile, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his country "had a special role to play in controlling the world's largest merchant fleet,"

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"Greece, once again, is offering to help and support every effort made, under the auspices of the United Nations, so that the grain currently blocked in Ukraine, mainly in Odessa, leaves Ukraine and eventually ends up in the countries. "they need it today," he said.

Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of blocking Ukrainian ports to prevent grain exports, contributing to the global food crisis.

Russia has denied the allegations and said Ukraine should remove mines from the Black Sea to allow safe navigation.