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Ukraine steps up fight against Russian grain theft with new tracking technology

Agricultural ministers from Ukraine, the UK, and Lithuania have signed an updated Memorandum of Understanding to launch the Grain Verification Scheme (GVS) to track down crops, stolen by Russia, Agriculture Minister Vitalii Koval wrote on Jan. 19.

20 January 2025, 01:02 PM

Ukraine invites Switzerland to join food aid initiative for Syria

Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Switzerland to join Ukraine’s humanitarian food aid program for Syria in a phone call with its newly elected President Karin Keller-Sutter, Presidential Office wrote on Jan. 7.

8 January 2025, 08:03 AM

Death toll from Russian strike on Odesa Oblast rises to nine as one more man dies in hospital

The death toll from the Russian missile strike on the port infrastructure in Odesa Oblast, taken place on Oct. 9, has risen to nine, regional governor Oleh Kiper reported on Oct. 11.

11 October 2024, 01:41 PM

Civilian ship hit by Russian missile in Black Sea

The Russian military struck a civilian cargo vessel in the Black Sea with a Kh-22 anti-ship cruise missile, according to the press service of the Ukrainian Navy.

12 September 2024, 09:14 PM

Eleven drones and missiles used in overnight attack on Ukraine, reports Air Force

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with eleven drones and missiles overnight on Aug. 30-Sept. 1, the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram on Sept. 1.

1 September 2024, 01:29 PM

Ukraine’s Nibulon delivers first grain shipment to Egypt in 2024

Nibulon, one of Ukraine's largest grain market operators, delivered the first batch of Ukrainian grain to Egypt in 2024 as part of a tender with the General Authority for Supply of Commodities of the Egyptian government (GASC), the company reported on Facebook on Aug. 1.

1 August 2024, 03:25 PM

Ukrainian General Zaluzhnyi holds inaugural diplomatic meeting in the UK

Ukrainian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Valerii Zaluzhnyi held his first diplomatic meeting with IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez to discuss grain corridor security, he reported on Telegram on July 22.

23 July 2024, 01:25 AM

Ukraine sends 1,000 tons of grain to Palestine

Ukraine has sent 1,000 tons of grain to Palestine as part of its humanitarian program “Grain from Ukraine,” Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry reported on Telegram on July 18.

18 July 2024, 06:12 PM

Ukraine detains ship captain for transporting stolen grain from Crimea

The captain of a foreign vessel, a citizen of Azerbaijan, who helped Russians illegally export Ukrainian grain from temporarily occupied Crimea, was detained in Odesa Oblast, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported on Telegram on July 11.

11 July 2024, 10:35 AM

New grain harvest from occupied territories shipped to Russia

More than 80 tons of the new grain harvest have been exported by Russians from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, the National Resistance Center reported on July 6.

8 July 2024, 11:00 AM

Russia has stolen billions from Ukraine's agriculture industry - investigation opened

Russia has stolen over 1,700 tons of Ukrainian agriculture products, worth billions of dollars, which Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office is investigating, the agency reported.

31 May 2024, 12:33 PM

Russia hauls stolen grain from Kherson Oblast to Karelia — report

With assistance from Chinese and Kazakh companies, Moscow is now transporting stolen Ukrainian grain from occupied areas of Kherson Oblast to Russia’s Karelia, Ukrainian Yellow Ribbon resistance movement reported via Telegram on May 22.

22 May 2024, 08:32 PM

Ukraine to halt grain delivery to Chornomorsk port, exports to drop threefold

Russian attacks on infrastructure, in particular targeting the port, may result in reducing Ukrainian grain export to 5 million tons instead of the expected 8 million tons in April, Interfax-Ukraine reported with reference to its own source in the grain market, who wished to remain anonymous.

11 April 2024, 04:34 PM

Journalists identify Russian ships carrying Ukrainian grain from Mariupol

At least three Russian cargo vessels have been identified illegally transporting Ukrainian grain from occupied Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, according to an investigation by Ukrainian journalists at Bihus.Info, published on April 8.

9 April 2024, 01:37 AM

Polish and Ukrainian agricultural groups to meet this month to hammer out blockade-ending compromise

The next meeting of the Ukrainian and Polish Agrarian Associations regarding the transit of agricultural products will be held on April 5, with a more extensive meeting set for the second half of April, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Vysotskyi said on air of national telethon on March 30.

1 April 2024, 09:53 AM

Odesa grain market operations hampered by Russian attacks — Ukrzaliznytsia

Grain market participants and freight forwarders have faced around five days of unloading delays caused by ongoing air raid alerts in Odesa Oblast in recent weeks, Valerii Tkachov, Ukrzaliznytsia’s Deputy Commercial Director, said during a meeting with grain market stakeholders, Interfax-Ukraine reported on March 29.

30 March 2024, 02:12 PM

European Parliament postpones approval of duty-free trade deal with Ukraine

The scheduled March 25 vote by EU ambassadors on the regulations governing the import of Ukrainian agricultural products has been delayed until March 27, the Polish news outlet RMF24 reported on March 25.

26 March 2024, 12:16 PM

Situation has gone beyond morality — Zelenskyy outraged over Polish border blockade

The hardships that Ukraine is currently facing are being exploited in Polish domestic political struggles, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his evening address on March, 3, assessing the situation on the Polish-Ukrainian border.

4 March 2024, 04:25 PM

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