KYIV, Ukraine — A United Nations-chartered ship crammed with 23,000 metric heaps of Ukrainian grain predestined for Ethiopia set sail Sunday from a Black Sea port, the veryfirst delivery of its kind in a program to help nations dealingwith scarcity.
The Liberia-flagged Brave Commander left from the Ukrainian port of Yuzhne, east of Odesa, according to local guv Maksym Marchenko. It prepares to sail to Djibouti, where the grain will be unloaded and moved to Ethiopia under the World Food Program effort.
Ukraine and Russia reached a offer with Turkey on July 22 to reboot Black Sea grain shipment, resolving the significant export interruption that has happened because Russia gotinto Ukraine in February.
Ethiopia is one of 5 nations that the U.N. thinksabout at threat of hunger.
“The capability is there. The grain is there. The need is there throughout the world and in specific, these nations,” WFP Ukraine organizer Denise Brown informed The Associated Press. “So if the stars are linedup, we are extremely, extremely enthusiastic that all the stars around this contract will come together on what is actually an concern for mankind. So today was really favorable.”
On the front line, Russian forces fired rock