First big grain ship leaves Ukraine's Black Sea port

Palau-flagged cargo ship Resilient Africa, carrying Ukraine grain, transits Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey September 22, 2023. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik

KYIV (Reuters) -The first big ship carrying grain from a Ukrainian Black Sea port has set sail since Moscow quit a deal in July to allow exports, a Ukrainian deputy prime minister said on Friday, part of Kyiv's campaign to break Russia's de facto blockade.

The Aroyat "left the port Chornomorsk after loading 17,600 (metric tons of) Ukrainian wheat for Egypt," Oleksandr Kubrakov said on the X social media app, formerly Twitter.