Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority: Ukraine Should Be Ready to Export Mostly Via Danube Ports

According to a Reuters report, Ukraine should be ready to export grain almost entirely via its Danube River ports because Russia is blocking Black Sea shipments, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority said on Tuesday.

• The United Nations and Turkey fostered a deal between Moscow and Kyiv last July on the safe passage of Black Sea grain to aid with the global food crisis worsened by Russia's invasion of its neighbour and a blockade of Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
• Moscow has threatened not to extend the deal beyond July 18 unless certain demands are met, including the removing barriers to Russian grain and fertiliser exports. It says that those promises have not been fulfilled.
• "With Russia effectively blocking the operation of the grain corridor, we need to be ready to receive almost the entire export volume of the new harvest through the Danube ports," Dmytro Barinov, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority's deputy head, said on Facebook.

Read the full report here.