over ukraine s black sea coast. that s despite moscow s decision to withdraw from the much fought over snake island earlier this week. in the past 2a hours, missiles have hit the port of odessa, killing at least 19 people. before they were effectively blockaded, ports in the black sea were used to export grain. now, ukraine accuses russia of stealing that grain and it says this russian flagged cargo ship has left the russian occupied port of berdyansk with a cargo of seed. the ship is heading to the turkish port of karasu. ukraine is demanding that turkey, a nato member, intercepts it. for more analysis on this, i ve been speaking to anna borschevskaya, a senior fellow at the washington institute, who specialises in russia s middle eastern policy. if you look at the broader turkish behaviour since the russian invasion of ukraine, turkey had tried to position
is because grain is a massive agricultural export from ukraine and at the moment loads of it is stuck in the ports, in the warehouses, around odesa, and so getting it out the world, specifically to the developing world where normally it would be sold, is a really, really important challenge, notjust for ukraine but for the whole world. our correspondentjoe inwood in kyiv there, mentioning the global importance of ukrainian grain. russia has been accused of stealing grain from areas of ukraine it controls. moscow denies the allegations. currently ukraine is calling for a ship carrying grain from a russian occupied part of the country to be seized. the bbc has been monitoring the russian flagged vessel, on its route from the ukrainian port of berdyansk to the turkish port of karasu. earlier, i spoke to bbc reality check s daniele palumbo and he expained what s happening with ukrainian grain.
a different version of events. they say they voluntarily left in order to facilitate the passage of grain into the rest of the world via the black sea to help the united nations in their plans to get it out. the reason that s important is because grain is a massive agricultural export from ukraine and at the moment loads of it is stuck in the ports, in the warehouses, around odesa, and so getting it out the world, specifically to the developing world where normally it would be sold, is a really, really important challenge, notjust for ukraine but for the whole world. joe inwood in kyiv there, mentioning the global importance of ukrainian grain. russia has been accused of stealing grain from areas of ukraine it controls. moscow denies the allegations. currently, ukraine is calling for a ship carrying grain from a russian occupied part of the country to be seized. the bbc has been monitoring the russian flagged vessel, on its route from the ukrainian port of berdyansk to the turkish port