Kyiv vows response as Russia ships stolen grain to multiple countries

Published on 29/04/2026 - 11:47 GMT+2

Ukraine is tracking aggregate vessels carrying atom it says Russia stole from the occupied territories and shipped to astatine slightest 4 countries, arsenic the diplomatic enactment implicit Ukraine and Israel implicit different stolen atom acquisition rumbles on.

The Ukrainian overseas ministry confirmed connected Tuesday that Moscow's income of stolen atom are not constricted to Israel, and that the full fig of countries that person bought its shipments is apt bigger.

"Such shipments arrived successful Turkey, Egypt, Algeria and immoderate different countries. These are lone the cases I tin callback from representation that happened earlier," overseas ministry spokesperson Heorhiy Tykhyi said.

“We spot everything and volition not permission it without attention,” Tykhyi said. “This volition not stay without a due response.”

The overseas ministry emphasised that Ukraine maintained its attack not lone toward Israeli companies, but besides toward anyone who “participates successful amerciable commercialized and efficaciously helps Russia concern its warfare efforts against Ukraine.”

Ukraine to request explanations from Egypt

Panama-flagged bulk bearer Asomatos docked successful Egypt connected Tuesday, reportedly carrying implicit 25,000 tonnes of wheat loaded successful Feodosia successful Russia-annexed Crimea.

Another vessel, the Russia-flagged Victoria, had departed from Mariupol earlier this period and past unloaded implicit 7,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat from temporarily occupied territory successful Egypt. The vas is nether Ukrainian sanctions.

In aboriginal April, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium addressed the contented with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

“President (El-Sisi) informed maine that Egypt volition nary longer judge atom exported by Russia from our temporarily occupied territories and is, astatine the aforesaid time, funny successful expanding imports of atom from Ukraine,” Zelenskyy posted connected X connected 3 April.

Kyiv said it would “approach” Egypt regarding a caller lawsuit of a vas arriving with atom that was exported by Russia from the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Egypt is the world's largest wheat importer, and the biggest purchaser of Russian wheat. According to estimates from obstruction bearer Rusagrotrans, it has bought astir 7.6 cardinal tonnes of ​Russian atom truthful ​far this season, ⁠around the aforesaid level arsenic past year.

On 2 April, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow and Cairo were exploring plans to make a associated “grain and vigor hub” connected Egyptian territory.

Russia has been ⁠seeking caller ways of distributing its vigor and commodities exports successful ​response to waves of Western sanctions implicit its warfare successful Ukraine.