Record wartime amount of grain leaves Ukraine despite Russian blockade threat
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Twelve vessels set off from Ukrainian ports on Monday - two days after Moscow suspended its role in the Turkey and UN-brokered Black Sea grain export deal in retaliation for a drone attack on Russia's Sevastopol-based Black Sea fleet on the Russian-annexed Crimea Peninsula. Ukraine has shipped a wartime record volume of grain despite Russia withdrawing from an international deal and warning shipments without its consent would be "more risky" and "dangerous". Twelve vessels set off from Ukrainian ports on Monday carrying 354,500 tonnes of agricultural products, Odesa's military administration said - including 40,000 tonnes of grain on the Ikaria Angel, a vessel headed for Ethiopia, where a severe drought is affecting millions of people. It was the most moved in a single day since the Turkey and UN-brokered Black Sea grain export deal in July. The large convoy of ships set sail two days after Moscow suspended its role in the deal in retaliation for an aerial and underwater drone attack o
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