ZAPORZYZH, Ukraine — A third shipment of food left Ukrainian ports on Sunday as an explosion near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant raised the specter of a war that would unleash a nuclear catastrophe.
A convoy of four ships carrying more than 161,000 metric tons of corn, sunflower oil and other cargo left the port of Odessa on Sunday morning, according to Ukrainian authorities. It was the second multi-vessel convoy to leave Ukraine in three days under a UN-backed deal with Russia aimed at alleviating a global hunger crisis amid soaring food prices due in part to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
