Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has called his Israeli counterpart Gideon Saar to discuss a Russian ship that is allegedly carrying grain stolen from Ukraine and has been allowed to dock in an Israeli port, Reuters reports.
Kyiv considers grain grown in all four Russian-occupied regions to belong to Ukraine and has said it was stolen. Sybiha wrote in a post on the X on the 14th of April that he had stressed to Saar that the illegal export of stolen Ukrainian agricultural products is part of Russia’s war effort, and that such trade in stolen products is unacceptable.
The four annexed regions of Russia are called the “new territories,” but internationally they are considered part of Ukraine. Sybiha reported in March that Russia exported more than two million tons of grain through the Black Sea last year. Last August, Sybiha estimated that Russia had stolen about 15 million tons of grain in total since the start of the full-scale war.
The Ukrainian foreign minister added that he had also discussed security issues and the situation in the Middle East with his Israeli counterpart.
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Ukraine, Israel discuss Russian grain theft
