A Russian attack on the port of Chornomorsk has destroyed 60,000 tons of grain that should have been loaded onto a large-capacity vessel and shipped through the Black Sea grain corridor 60 days ago.
Ukraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi announced this in a statement, the CFTS portal reports.
According to him, the overnight attack took a significant part of the Chornomorsk port’s grain export infrastructure out of operation.
Experts believe it will take at least a year to fully restore the facilities affected by the attack.
"This is a terrorist act not against Ukraine but against the entire world, whose food security is again under threat. A terrorist country is holding humanity hostage and blackmailing the entire world with hunger," he added.
As the CFTS portal reported, Russia attacked grain terminals and infrastructure in the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk on 19 July. It conducted a targeted air attack on grain terminals in the ports in the early hours of the day. The grain infrastructures of international and Ukrainian traders and carriers Kernel, Viterra, and CMA CGM Group, were damaged.
