Ukraine asks Israel to seize ship carrying grain ‘stolen’ by Russia
Key takeaways
- Kyiv requested that Israel seize the vessel and its cargo, take grain samples, and question crew members.
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- The grain had earlier been loaded from another vessel, he said.
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Kyiv requested that Israel seize the vessel and its cargo, take grain samples, and question crew members.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo. A farmer operates a combine during the start of the wheat harvesting campaign in a field near the town of Starobilsk (Starobelsk) in the Luhansk Region, a Russian-controlled area of Ukraine [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]By Reuters Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026Ukraine has asked Israel to seize a vessel carrying grain it says was stolen from areas occupied by Russia, its top prosecutor said, amid a diplomatic tussle between the two countries over the shipment.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko said on Telegram on Wednesday that the vessel, Panormitis, was headed to the Israeli port of Haifa with grain “some of which was shipped” from Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine.