Ukraine announced on Monday that it had summoned Israel’s ambassador to protest a shipment to an Israeli port allegedly containing grain harvested in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory–a cargo Kyiv has denounced as “stolen.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated that he called the Israeli ambassador to Kyiv to a Tuesday morning meeting “to present our protest note and request appropriate action.”
Ukraine claims it had previously informed Israel in April that a shipment received at the port of Haifa contained grain from Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia following the 2022 full-scale invasion.
“It is difficult to understand Israel’s lack of appropriate response to Ukraine’s legitimate request regarding the previous vessel that delivered stolen goods to Haifa,” Sybiha wrote on X.
