Live: UN ship carrying grain for Africa leaves Ukraine
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Issued on: 17/08/2022 – 06:04
A UN-chartered vessel laden with grain set off from Ukraine for Africa on Tuesday following a deal to relieve a global food crisis, the ministry in charge of shipments said. Follow FRANCE 24’s live coverage of the Ukraine crisis. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).
6:42am: Ship carrying first Ukraine grain cargo docks sets sail
The MV Brave Commander left the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi and will sail to Djibouti “for delivery to Ethiopia”, the infrastructure ministry said on Telegram.
The ship is carrying 23,000 tonnes of wheat.
It is the first ship chartered by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to leave Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in February and the government has said it hopes two or three similar shipments will follow soon.
9:02pm: Macron says he discussed Ukraine crisis with India’s Modi
French President Emmanuel Macron discussed via telephone on Tuesday the crisis in Ukraine with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the two agreed to work together to try to end the conflict, said the French presidency.
Macron also held a call earlier on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which the French leader underlined his concerns about risks to Ukraine’s nuclear facilities as result of the fighting with Russia.
8:42pm: Ukraine nuclear power company says Russian hackers attacked website
Ukraine’s state nuclear power company Energoatom said a Russian hacker group launched a major three-hour attack on its website on Tuesday but had not caused significant problems.
“The Russian group ‘People’s Cyber Army’ carried out a cyber attack using 7.25 million bot users, who simulated hundreds of millions of views of the company’s main page,” Energoatom said in a statement. “(This) did not significantly affect operations of the Energoatom website.”
(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)
