Russia to export grain from Ukraine’s Berdyansk port

Russia has started shipping grain from Ukraine’s occupied territory from Thursday. Russia has exported a vessel with 7,000 tons of cereal from Ukraine’s Berdyansk port.

According to the media reports, Kyiv has been blaming Russia and its allies for stealing its grains from Southern Ukraine, contributing to a global food shortage caused by grain exports blocked in Ukrainian ports.

So far, the shipments have been moved by land, Kyiv says. The grain shipment from the port of Berdyansk on Thursday that has opened a sea route to export wheat from Ukraine to other states.

“After numerous months of delay, the first merchant ship has left the Berdyansk commercial port, moving 7,000 tons of grain to the Allies countries,” Evgeny Balitsky, the head of the pro-Russia administration, said in an interview.

He said that Russia’s Black Sea ships are “guaranteeing the security” of the journey, adding that the Ukrainian port had been crushed.

Balitsky didn’t determine the finishing-up objective of the cargo. Berdyansk is a port city on the northern shore of the Azov Sea, in the region of Zaporizhzhya in south-eastern Ukraine.

The southern Ukrainian territories of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia have been under Russian control starting from the long primary weeks of Moscow’s invasion. They are presently being strongly coordinated in Russia’s economy.

According to the sources, the pro-Moscow authorities of the two Ukrainian regions have claimed they have “nationalized.”

The pro- Moscow authorities in the two Ukrainian regions guarantee they have “nationalized” state framework and property there and purchase their harvests from nearby farmers.

Following the media reports, a delegate of the pro-Moscow authorities, Vladimir Rogov, told the state news organization that 1.5 million tons of grain could be sent out through Berdyansk.

Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, a nation known as Europe’s breadbasket, has pushed up food costs and prompted deficiencies, as Russia’s barricade of Black Sea ports forestalls.

Russia, the biggest wheat exporter on the planet, has said it is confronting challenges in sending out its grain because of extraordinary Western authorizations over its mediation in Ukraine.