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The first grain ship to leave Ukraine under the UN-Turkey-brokered agreements appears to have arrived in Syria.

This is evident from satellite images of "Planet Labs", analyzed yesterday by the Associated Press.

Pictures show the Sierra Leonean-flagged ship Razoni docked at the Syrian port of Tartus shortly before 11 a.m. on Monday.

The ship is located right next to a grain silo.

Data from the Razoni's Automatic Identification System (AIS) has stopped coming in since Friday when it was near Cyprus, according to the website MarineTraffic.com.

Vessels must keep their AIS on, but when they want to disguise their route, they turn it off.

Ships sailing toward internationally sanctioned Syria typically turn off their transponders, the AP said.

The Razoni can be recognized on a satellite photo by its color, length and breadth, as well as the four large white cranes on its deck.

Samir Madani, co-founder of the oil tanker tracking website TankerTrackers.com and an expert in tracking ships using satellite images, identified the Razoni by these parameters.

The "Financial Times" newspaper was the first to report on the "Planet Labs" photos, AP said.

"Razoni" departed from Odessa on August 1 with 26,000 tons of corn with an assumed destination of Lebanon.

According to Lebanese media, the merchant who ordered the cargo refused.

Before reaching Syria, the ship was in the port of Mersin, Turkey.

UN: Over half a million tons of grain have already been exported from Ukraine

The UN coordination center in Istanbul, which under the scheme inspects the loaded ships, said that after the checks they sail to their final destination "whatever that is".

Yesterday, the Ukrainian embassy in Beirut stated that the cargo of "Razoni" is no longer the responsibility of Kyiv.

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