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Israel has turned away a Russian cargo ship carrying wheat that Ukraine says was stolen from Russian-occupied territory.

Getting into it: The ship in question, the Panormitis, had been on its way to the port of Haifa with a load of grain that Ukraine’s prosecutor general says was originally pulled from occupied Ukrainian territory and then transferred to the Panormitis at sea (the vessel’s Greece-based management company, Royal Maritime Inc., denies any of it came from occupied Ukraine and says its papers list the cargo as Russian). After days of pressure from Kyiv, including a formal legal request to seize the vessel and the summoning of Israeli Ambassador Michael Brodsky, the Israel Grain Importers Association said Thursday that importer Zenziper had been forced to refuse the shipment, and that the Russian supplier would now have to find somewhere else to unload it.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha welcomed the move and said Ukraine plans to keep tracking the ship. He said, “This is also a clear signal to all other vessels, captains, operators, insurers, and governments: do not buy stolen Ukrainian grain. Do not become part of this crime.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier in the week called the trade illegal and said Kyiv was preparing sanctions on the people and companies profiting off it.

Before Israel turned the ship away, the back-and-forth between Israel and Ukraine had gotten sharp, with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar accusing Kyiv of running its complaints through social media instead of legal channels and calling it “Twitter diplomacy.” Sybiha hit back, calling Ukraine’s move “a very concrete legal and diplomatic request for international legal assistance” and telling Israel to “take it seriously rather than responding with emotional statements.”

This all comes as Ukraine says it plans to coordinate with European partners to fold companies and individuals tied to the grain shipments into existing EU sanctions regimes.