The European Union welcomed the withdrawal of the first grain carrier from the port of Odesa after February 24 as part of the Istanbul agreements.

This was said by the EU foreign policy spokesman Peter Stano, reports "European Pravda".

"The European Union welcomes the dispatch of the first merchant ship from Odessa after the signing of the initiative on the export of grain through the Black Sea on July 22 ... This is a very important step that we welcome. We look forward to the full implementation of all agreements and the resumption of Ukrainian exports for consumers around the world, which is necessary because the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the blocking of ports have negative consequences for the most vulnerable people in Africa, Asia and the Middle East," he said.

In a commentary, Peter Stano also recalled that Russia struck the port of Odesa the day after the initiative was signed, and that Russia deliberately destroyed infrastructure, mined and torched fields, stole Ukrainian grain and tried to sell it.

The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine welcomed the dispatch from Odesa of the first ship carrying corn under the Istanbul Accords, but reminded her that Russia must stop its war of invasion.

"We welcome the dispatch from Ukrainian Black Sea ports of the first ship since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24. The world will follow the continued implementation of this arrangement to provide people around the world with millions of tons of grain that is blocked in Ukraine," the embassy said in a statement.

"This is positive news, but Russia must stop attacking Ukrainians, their farmland and Ukrainian infrastructure ... including the continuous shelling of Mykolaiv," Ambassador Brigitte Brink said separately, recalling that Ukraine is called the breadbasket of Europe.

Britain also welcomed the fact that the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain left the port of Odesa and said that Russian shelling of the port should not be repeated.

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement.

"This is an important first step. Britain and our allies have persevered to achieve this result," she said.

Truss said Russia has felt the full brunt of global pressure, and now the eyes of the world will be watching to see if it will continue to use the world's food supply as a weapon, as it has so far.

These ships must be given safe passage. Russia's shelling of the port of Odesa must not happen again," the British Foreign Secretary said.

"The only way Putin can really mitigate the global food security crisis he has created is to stop his brutal invasion of Ukraine," she stressed.

Recall, after 9 a.m., Ukraine's infrastructure minister said that the Sierra Leone-flagged ship RAZONI departed Odesa with 26,000 tons of Ukrainian corn.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the departure of the first ship "a day of relief for the world.