A Swedish court has ordered the arrest of the cargo vessel Caffa, the first time a foreign court has seized a ship at Ukraine’s request over suspected illegal grain export from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory.

Fartyget Caffa som bordades av svenska myndigheter den 6 mars får lämnas ut till Ukraina, har Ystads tingsrätt beslutat.

"This is the first case in which, following a request for international legal assistance from the Ukrainian prosecution authorities, a foreign court has approved the seizure of a…