In a Twitter post, Ravid cited a response from the Israeli government to Ukrainian requests to take action.
“Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar sent a text message today to his Ukrainian counterpart & wrote that unfortunately it is too late & the vessel has already left the port of Haifa and therefore it cannot be detained (the Israeli Foreign Ministry knew about this vessel two weeks before it arrived at the port),” Ravid wrote.
“Senior Ukrainian officials tell me they made it clear to Israel that they are demanding the confiscation of the wheat cargo.”
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said on its website April 16 that Kyiv had warned Israeli partners in advance, as early as March 23, about the ship ABINSK and the possible origin of its cargo from occupied Ukrainian territory, making the cargo inadmissible. The ministry said it received assurances of an “appropriate response.”
On April 13, Kateryna Yaresko of the SeaKrime project
reported that the ABINSK, carrying more than 43,000 tons of wheat from occupied
Ukraine, has docked at the Israeli port of Haifa.