Civilian vessel left port of Odesa and travelled down temporary corridor set up after Moscow pulled out of UN-backed Black Sea grain deal
A civilian cargo vessel has left Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa, Kyiv has said, despite warnings from Russia that its navy could target ships using the Black Sea export hubs.
The ship was travelling down a temporary corridor that Ukraine asked the International Maritime Organization to ratify. With ship insurance likely to be high for operators, Ukraine has told the IMO it would “provide guarantees of compensation for damage”. The governor of the Odesa region said on Wednesday that Russian attack drones had damaged grain facilities at a river port near the Romanian border. The air force meanwhile said it had downed 13 Russian drones over Odesa and the neighbouring Mykolaiv region.
Zelenskiy, too, condemned the strikes, adding that “every Russian attack on them is a blow to world food prices, it is a blow to social and political stability in Africa and Asia”.
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