The United Nations said first UN-chartered vessel set to transport grain from Ukrainian port under a deal to relieve a global food crisis should dock in Ukraine on Friday, reports BSS.
According to UN's World Food Programme, the MV Brave Commander, which left Istanbul on Wednesday, is due to arrive in Yuzhne, east of Odessa on the Black Sea coast.
Agency’s spokesman Tomson Phiri said, ‘It will collect Ukrainian wheat grain purchased by the WFP.’
"This is obviously the first shipment of humanitarian food assistance under the Black Sea Grain Initiative," he said.
On July 22, Kyiv and Moscow signed a landmark deal with Turkey to unblock Black Sea grain deliveries, following Russia's February invasion of Ukraine.
