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Lebanon to Free Ship Accused of Carrying Stolen Ukrainian Grain
- Syrian vessel blamed for moving barley, wheat loaded in Crimea
- Ukraine says Russia is stealing grain but Kremlin denies that
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Lebanon will release a ship carrying barley and wheat flour after authorities concluded the grains weren’t stolen from Ukraine.
The Syrian-registered Laodicea was seized last week after Ukraine’s embassy said the cargo originated from Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kherson in southeastern Ukraine and was loaded at Feodosia in the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea.