Foreign-flagged ship in Ukraine to pick up grain

KYIV/ISTANBUL/MOSCOW－A foreign-flagged ship arrived in Ukraine on Saturday for the first time since the conflict started in February, and will be loaded with grain, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said.

Ukraine is starting to resume grain exports in an effort overseen by a Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul in which Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations personnel are working.

The United Nations and Turkiye brokered a deal after UN warnings of possible outbreaks of famine due to a halt in grain shipments from Ukraine. Before the conflict, Russia and Ukraine together accounted for nearly a third of global wheat exports.