Heading Off: A new technique helps track grain smuggling expansion to Libya.

Bellingcat Investigation Team   Bellingcat12 June 2026
Heading data contained in AIS information helped confirm the presence of the Grumant in the occupied Ukrainian port of Feodosia before it travelled to Benghazi.

This is only the second time a Russian ship has been observed delivering what the Ukrainian government describes as “stolen” grain to the country.