The President of Ukraine said that he will achieve the introduction of sanctions against Israel. In turn, Israel rejected this accusation, saying that Ukraine did not provide any evidence.
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The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Israel will achieve the introduction of sanctions for receiving grain exported by Russia from the occupied territories of Ukraine. said The president threatened to impose sanctions on grain transporters and those “trying to make money through such a criminal scheme.”
“Purchasing a stolen item is an act that causes legal liability in all normal countries. This applies, in particular, to the grain stolen by Russia,” the head of Ukraine wrote on April 28 on social networks. According to him, Kiev tried to demand through diplomatic channels that ships loaded with grain stolen from Israel do not enter the country’s ports, but “the next such ship was not stopped.”
On April 27, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrey Sibi, announced that at least the second ship loaded with grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine had entered the Israeli port of Haifa. Kiev summoned the Israeli ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and urged them not to accept the ship. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said that Ukraine has not provided any evidence for this.
The Kremlin refused to comment on statements about the export of grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine. “Let the Kiev regime deal with Israel, and Israel with the Kiev regime itself. We do not want to comment and interfere in this case,” said Dmitry Peskov, press secretary of the Russian president, at a briefing held on April 28.
The Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine reported in early 2026 that Russia was selling grain from the occupied territories of Ukraine as its own to circumvent sanctions. According to Ukrainian estimates, last year Russia exported more than two million tons of grain grown in the occupied territories. Their main buyers were Egypt and Bangladesh.
Russia has been regularly – at least since 2023 – delivering grain collected from the occupied territories of Ukraine to Israel, the Israeli publication Haaretz reported on April 27. According to journalists, during this time, two ships loaded with grain arrived in the country and at least one of them was unloaded. At least seven other ships tried to hide the origin of the grain.
