A ship left the port of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, the first to leave since Russia took the city, according to the leader of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, who was speaking on behalf of Russian authorities.
The RM-3 vessel carrying “2,500 tonnes of hot-rolled sheet” is heading to Rostov in western Russia, Denis Pushilin said on his Telegram channel.
Separately, an update from the press service of the People’s Militia Department of the Donetsk People’s Republic said the ship was loaded under the protection of special forces and the Russian navy.
Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of looting products such as grain and metals from the country.
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On Saturday, Ukraine criticized Russia for sending a ship to Mariupol for a shipment of metal bound for Russia. The human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, Liudmyla Denisova, said at the time that Russian troops planned to send a ship carrying “3,000 tons of metallic products” from Mariupol to Rostov (Russia).
Denisova said the port of Mariupol was home to about 200,000 tonnes of metal and cast iron worth $170 million before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Source: CNN Brasil
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