SANA’A (Reuters) – The second shipment of humanitarian food aid, since Russia’s operation, left Ukraine for Yemen on Tuesday, the World Food Programme said in a statement. The “MV Karteria” left from the Black Sea port of Yuzhny and will stop in Turkey for the grains to be milled into flour, the UN agency said. Ukraine’s grain exports have slumped since the start of the war in February because of port closures, driving up global food prices and increasing hunger in some of the poorest parts of the world. A deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations in July helped unblock them and, so far around 1.5 million tons of agricultural goods have been exported through the Black Sea initiative, Ukraine says.

Last year, Yemen, where tens of thousands have been killed in a Saudi-led conflict, received nearly half of its wheat imports from Ukraine and Russia.