A ship carrying 7,000 tonnes of grain left Ukraine's Black Sea port of Berdyansk, the head of Zaporozhye's military-civilian administration, Yevgeny Balitsky, said on Thursday.

"After several months of inactivity, the first merchant ship left the Berdyansk commercial seaport. Seven thousand tonnes of grain went to friendly countries," Balitsky wrote on his Telegram channel without mentioning where the vessel was headed to.