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The latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EDT.

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12:01 a.m.: The Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) authorized the movement of one outbound merchant vessel Kafkam Etler to depart Tuesday from Chornomorsk carrying 2,437 metric tons of corn to Turkey, under the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the JCC said in a statement shared by VOA U.N. correspondent Margaret Besheer.

As of Monday, the total tonnage of grain and foodstuffs exported from the three Ukrainian ports is 721,449 metric tons, according to the JCC statement.