Turkey: 4 grain ships leave the ports of Ukraine
Zelensky calls for Russia's political, economic and military fatigue
The cargo ship "Brief Commander" carries 23,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Ukrainians to continue all efforts to "exhaust" Russia so that it could not continue its war on his country.
While the Turkish Defense Ministry said yesterday that four other ships left Ukraine loaded with sunflower oil and corn, a navigational source and satellite data said that the first ship to leave Ukraine under an agreement to resume grain exports from it two weeks ago docked in the Syrian port of Tartus.
In detail, in his daily evening speech, Volodymyr Zelensky said, "We need to do everything, so that Russia is tired of fighting."
He called on Ukrainians to "continue all efforts to exhaust Russia, politically, economically and militarily, so that it cannot continue waging its war in Ukraine."
In Istanbul, the Turkish Defense Ministry said yesterday that four other ships had left Ukraine loaded with sunflower oil and corn.
It added that the ships left from the ports of Chornomorsk and Odessa as part of a grain export agreement brokered by the United Nations.
On the other hand, a navigational source and satellite data said that the first ship to leave Ukraine under an agreement to resume grain exports from it two weeks ago docked in the Syrian port of Tartus on Tuesday.
The Sierra Leone-flagged ship, the Razzoni, sailed from the Ukrainian port of Odessa on August 1, under an agreement reached after trouble, but it did not unload its cargo in Lebanon as planned.
Its location has not been clear in recent days because it has kept the transceiver switched off.
Satellite images from Planet Labs BBC showed the ship in Tartus port on Tuesday morning.
A shipping source confirmed that it had docked there and said that it would unload at least part of its shipment of corn in Syria.
The shipment of 26,000 tons of corn was originally destined for Lebanon, which is experiencing an economic crisis.
But the original buyer refused delivery due to quality concerns, and the ship sailed to Turkey, docked at Mersin port on August 11, and unloaded part of the cargo there.
When she sailed again the next day, she did not turn on the transponder.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that America was aware of reports that the ship's shipment had been sold to another buyer and that it was now near Tartus.
"What matters to us most are two things: first, that Ukraine gets adequate compensation for the grain and food, and the crops it provides in this case, and (second) that the food gets to where it is most needed," he added.
In Berlin, fear of a major gas shortage following the war in Ukraine prompted residents of the German capital to buy coal, which has become a scarce commodity despite the damage this heating method can cause to the environment.
• A ship carrying the first Ukrainian grain shipment docks in the Syrian port of Tartus.
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