Aug 6 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that his government would provide assistance to farmers hit by Russian \u200cattacks on shipping and port facilities.<\/p>\n
Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly \u200cvideo address, said the measures had been elaborated at a government meeting and would focus \u200bon farmers “who are now in a difficult situation because of Russian strikes on our ports and the maritime corridor”.<\/p>\n
He said the measures, including subsidised credits and other assistance with financing, would “begin to be implemented in the coming \u200cdays”.<\/p>\n
Russia, the world’s largest wheat \u2060exporter, and Ukraine, also a major agricultural exporter, have struck each other’s agricultural export facilities and commercial vessels in \u2060the Black Sea area in recent weeks.<\/p>\n
The governor of Ukraine’s Odesa Region, Oleh Kiper, said on Thursday that a Russian attack had damaged a foreign-flagged \u200bship loaded \u200bwith wheat in Ukraine’s Black Sea \u200barea, killing one crew member \u200cand causing a fire. Ukraine’s seaports authority identified the ship as sailing under the flag of Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n
Ukraine had established a Black Sea corridor for safe passage of shipping that moves along the coast towards Romania, but ships have recently come under attack in the area.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras \u200cVysotskyi told Reuters this week that alternative \u200bgrain export routes would reach required capacity \u200bat the end of August \u200bat the earliest. They would cover only half of \u200cvolumes handled by Black Sea ports \u200bdisrupted by Russian \u200battacks, he said.<\/p>\n
For its part, Russia’s main grain lobby group warned last month that drone strikes on Russian ships and ports could \u200bshut down grain exports \u200cvia the Black Sea in the near future, pushing up prices \u200band causing hunger in Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by \u200bRon Popeski; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 6 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that his government would provide assistance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8923,1138,8922,240,8921,26,412],"class_list":["post-25210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-agricultural-exporter","tag-black-sea","tag-port-facilities","tag-russian-attack","tag-russian-ships","tag-ukraine","tag-volodymyr-zelenskiy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}