Despite repeated warnings, the “ASOMATOS” vessel has been permitted to unload 26.9k tons of stolen Ukrainian wheat at Abu Qir. This is the fourth instance of russiaʼs grain laundering in Egyptian ports since April, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a statement.
“The “ASOMATOS” was allowed to dock and unload despite the fact that four days ago, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General formally requested legal assistance from Egypt’s Ministry of Justice regarding this illicit cargo, exported by the sanctioned “Agro-Frigat” via occupied Crimea, and provided all necessary data and legal grounds to seize the vessel and its cargo,” Sybiha said.
According to him, Ukraine is a country that has played the role of a reliable food security guarantor for Egypt for many years. “We don’t understand why Egyptian partners pay us back by continuing to accept stolen Ukrainian grain. Furthermore, we remind Egypt and all other nations that Ukraine survived a genocide through hunger last century when moscow ordered grain to be taken away from our people. Now that moscow again steals our grain, it invokes our worst memories,” he added.
“Stolen goods from occupied territories must be seized, not accepted. Looting is not trade, and complicity only fuels further aggression,” Sybiha stressed.
