Lebanon seizes Syrian ship carrying stolen Ukrainian grain

“The Public Prosecution seized the ship Laodicea docked in Tripoli port,” LBCI media outlet informs.

It is known that the ship was seized for 72 hours. The Embassy of Ukraine in Lebanon received relevant permission. The Embassy explains that the Russians loaded the ship with grain in the temporarily occupied Crimea on July 27. The ship carries barley taken from the Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia.

Instead, the Russian embassy in Lebanon insists that it allegedly has no information about the ship and calls Ukraine's accusations "false and groundless".

As reported, Taras Vysotsky, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine said that the Russian invaders had already taken several hundred thousand tonnes of grain from the temporarily occupied territories in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions.

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