Syrian ship carrying 'stolen barley, flour' from Ukraine docks in Tripoli, says embassy

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BEIRUT - A Syrian ship under US sanctions has docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli carrying barley and wheat that the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut told Reuters on Thursday had been plunder

ed by Russia from Ukrainian stores."The ship has travelled from a Crimean port that is closed to international shipping, carrying 5,000 tonnes of barley and 5,000 tonnes of flour that we suspect was taken from Ukrainian stores," the embassy told Reuters.

A Lebanese official confirmed that the issue had been raised during a Thursday meeting with Aoun and notedThe head of Tripoli port did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Laodicia is one of a trio of ships owned by the Syrian port authority that Ukraine says have been transporting wheat plundered from stores in Ukrainian territory recently overtaken by Russia.All three ships have been sanctioned by the United States since 2015.

 

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