The blockage of deliveries from warring Russia and Ukraine - two of the world's biggest grain exporters - has contributed to soaring food prices, hitting the world's poorest nations especially hard.
KYIV - The first shipment of Ukrainian grain left the port of Odessa on Monday morning, Turkey announced, as Kyiv said the "brutal" shelling by Moscow of the southern city Mykolaiv had killed an agriculture tycoon.
"It is expected in Istanbul on August 2. It will then continue its journey after it has been inspected in Istanbul," the statement added.The Joint Coordination Centre, the organisation overseeing the grain exports, said the Razoni is carrying "over 26,000 metric tonnes" of maize.
Vadatursky owned major grain exporter Nibulon and was previously decorated with the prestigious "Hero of Ukraine" award.Mykolaiv - which has been attacked frequently - is the closest Ukrainian city to the southern front where Kyiv's forces are looking to launch a major counter-offensive to recapture territory lost after Russia's February invasion.
Ukraine says Russia was behind the attack, with Zelensky accusing Moscow of the "deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war".AFP journalists on Sunday saw one wounded man collected by an ambulance after a ferocious bombardment of the town of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region. "Leave, we will help," Zelensky said. "At this stage of the war, terror is the main weapon of Russia."
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