2023-07-19 12:21:53
60,000 tons of grain for export and stored in the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk, near Odessa, were destroyed in Russian strikes overnight, the Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
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“It will take at least a year to fully repair the damaged infrastructure. In the port of Chornomorsk, 60,000 tons of grain were also destroyed, which should have been (…) shipped through the grain corridor 60 days ago, “announced Mykola Solsky, in a press release published on the site of his ministry.
“The grain infrastructure of international and Ukrainian traders and transporters has been the most affected”, he continued, saying that “world food security is once more in danger” with these attacks targeting Ukrainian sites linked to the grain export.
Among the companies whose infrastructure suffered damage, the Minister cited the French CMA-CGM or the Canadian group Viterra.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday accused Russia of having “deliberately targeted” in its early morning strikes sites used for the export of Ukrainian grain, three days following the expiration of a crucial agreement on the subject.
The Kremlin announced on Monday its refusal to extend the grain agreement signed in July 2022 under the aegis of the United Nations and Turkey, which allowed the safe transport of Ukrainian agricultural products, despite the conflict and the blockade of Ukrainian ports. by the Russian Navy.
Moscow denounces obstacles to the trade of its fertilizers and its own Russian food products.
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