BEIRUT: A Russian weight boat allegedly carrying stolen Ukrainian grain has reached Syria, Kyiv’s delegacy in Beirut said on Thursday, the rearmost in a series of queried shipments arriving in the war-torn country.
“According to our information, SV KONSTANTIN has docked in Syria,” the delegacy said in a statement.
It said the boat was carrying “grains that were despoiled and immorally transported by the Russian occupation authorities”, adding that the vessel was originally fated for the Lebanese harborage of Tripoli.
Ukraine has constantly indicted Russian forces of ransacking its grain storage since they raided the country in late February.
The delegacy’s statement came as another weight boat carrying the first payload of grain allowed to leave Ukraine under an UN-backed deal that reportedly disburdened its weight at the Syrian harborage of Tartus, which is managed by a Russian establishment.
Sierra Leone-flagged vessel Razoni was anticipated to arrive in Lebanon, but the payload’s five-month detention urged the Lebanese buyer to cancel the deal once the boat was formerly at the ocean, Ukrainian officers had said.
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According to Samir Madani, co-founder of oil painting shipping monitoring websiteTankerTrackers.com, the vessel docked in Tartus before this week.
Satellite imagery appeared to show that the boat which was carrying,000 tonnes of sludge — was disburdening its weight, Madani twittered on Thursday.
Before this month, a Syrian- flagged boat was compactly seized by Lebanese authorities following analogous claims by the Ukrainian delegacy that it was laden with stolen weight.
Lebanon latterly released the Laodicea vessel after examinations failed to prove it carried stolen goods, drawing review from Kyiv’s delegacy. The Laodicea started disburdening its weight at Tartus on August 8, according to Syrian state media.
Syria is a loyal supporter of Russia, which interposed in the country’s civil war in 2015 to support President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Moscow has advanced Damascus veritably limited quantities of fiscal aid, but it has supplied Syria with wheat as a form of backing.
The Syrian government relies on Moscow for the bulk of its wheat significance.
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